Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Oil and gas industry museum in Midland, United States.

The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum is a facility in Midland dedicated to the history and technology of oil and gas extraction. It features indoor galleries with technical artifacts and an outdoor area displaying original drilling equipment and production machinery.

The museum was founded in 1968 by a group of 500 led by George T. Abell under the Abell-Hangar Foundation, and it opened to the public in 1975. A $7.2 million expansion added the Transportation Wing in 2004, and an $18 million renovation of the petroleum exhibits was completed in 2016.

The museum reflects how the oil industry shaped the growth and identity of this region over decades. Visitors can see how the work of local pioneers and engineers transformed the area into a major industrial center.

The museum is open to the public seven days a week. Indoors, 40,000 square feet of exhibits cover geology, drilling and petroleum history; the outdoor Oil Patch spans over 40 acres and holds full-sized cable-tool rigs, a 148-foot mast rotary rig and a 119-foot steel derrick, so allow time for both.

The museum drives one of its Chaparral race cars in front of the building about every other month to keep it running. The cars were built in Midland by Jim Hall and Hap Sharp, who pioneered movable wings and ground-effect aerodynamics in motorsport.