Permanent Exhibits

The Museum of the Gulf Coast houses two floors of exhibits which depict the history and culture of the Gulf Coast region of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.  While we are best known for our Hall of Fame galleries we also display a wide range of exhibits including history, natural history, and decorative art.

 

Highlights of our permanent exhibitions include:

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• A reproduction of Janis Joplin’s famous psychedelic Porsche

• Jimmy Johnson’s high school letter jacket

• One of the largest indoor murals in the South

• The infamous (ask us why!) Gulf Oil cannon

• A 13.5 foot taxidermy alligator which once returned
  from the dead (ask us how!)

• The original fresnel lens of the Sabine Banks lighthouse  

• The John and Grace Snell Parlor of decorative arts
  and glassware

• A record-setting experimental fiberglass racecar

• Artwork by internationally-recognized Port Arthur
  native Robert Rauschenberg

• Rare books and cartography

• A Texas Navy - Maritime Exhibit

• Temporary Exhibits in the Dunn Gallery

 

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