Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
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| Established | April 14, 1933 |
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| Location | 2503 4th Avenue Canyon, Texas 79015 |
| Coordinates | 34°58′49″N 101°55′02″W / 34.980327°N 101.917257°W |
| Visitors | 52,000 (2013) |
| Founder | Panhandle-Plains Historical Society |
| Director | Guy C. Vanderpool |
| Curator | Michael R. Grauer Becky Livingston Veronica Arias |
| Website | panhandleplains |
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, U.S.A., a small city south of Amarillo. The museum's contents are owned and controlled by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, while West Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University Board of Regents maintains and provides the facilities. Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum claims to be the largest history museum in the state of Texas with 70,000 visitors annually and more than three million artifacts.
The museum's permanent exhibits include American Western life and agriculture history artifacts, art, paleontology, geology, Native American art and artifacts, firearms, antique vehicles, decorative arts and furniture, petroleum industry artifacts, sports artifacts, and textiles. The museum also features the outdoor Pioneer Town that includes a livery, saloon, schoolhouse, pioneer cabin and other buildings.
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society was founded in 1921 by faculty and students of West Texas State Teachers College and area supporters to preserve the history of pioneer life and natural history in the West Texas region. The museum received financial assistance from the Commission of Control for the 1936 Texas Centennial. The museum opened its permanent and present location on April 14, 1933.
Timothy Dwight Hobart of Pampa, a well-known land surveyor originally from Vermont, was elected president of the society in 1927 and served for six years. He pushed for completion of the museum. In 1933, he became an honorary board member for life.
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