The Panhandle-Plains Museum, One Of The State's Best, Is Fighting For Its Life

In the Panhandle town of Canyon, is the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Many people outside the town likely haven’t heard of it, but the museum’s former history curator calls it “one of the best kept secrets in Texas.” A recent piece in the Texas Observer, however, says the museum is in peril.

Rose Cahalan is managing editor of the Observer and the author of that story, and she says Panhandle-Plains is the largest history museum in Texas by size and by number of artifacts.

“They’ve got about 3 million [artifacts],” Cahalan says. “Even if you’ve never visited, you’ve likely seen their artifacts. … Other museums draw on them all the time.”

She says several museum professionals she spoke to for the story consider it to be a world-class museum.

Read more: http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/how-museums-suffer-when-higher-education-budgets-are-cut/