This museum tells the story of the world's first billion-dollar oil field and includes a 'model home' of an oil-field worker and an 80ft-tall working rig typical of the boom time in the late 1800s. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the museum comes off as something of an oil-industry booster – even a promoter – of today's controversial method of oil extraction known as fracking.
Penn Brad Oil Museum
Pennsylvania
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