This museum has a shiny new location in the heart of the downtown museum district. It's not particularly big and sometimes there seems to be a lot of reading, but it's an easy stop if you're already at the nearby Museum of Art.
El Paso Museum of History
El Paso
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El Paso Museum of Art
0.15 MILES
This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but…
Ysleta Mission
10.77 MILES
Home to Texas’ oldest continually active congregation, tracing back to 1680, Ysleta Mission was established for Spanish refugees and Tigua people fleeing…
First Armored Division & Fort Bliss Museum
4.64 MILES
As the largest air-defense training center in the Western world, Fort Bliss consumes much of the desert northeast of El Paso, and trains troops from all…
Border Patrol Museum
10.18 MILES
This small but informative museum spotlights the history of the US Border Patrol, which was founded in 1924. This happened three days after Congress…
Nearby El Paso attractions
1. El Paso Museum of Art
0.15 MILES
This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but…
2. El Paso Holocaust Museum
0.16 MILES
El Paso might not seem an obvious location for a Holocaust museum. Created by local survivors, though, this excellent little memorial holds thoughtful and…
3. Magoffin Home
0.88 MILES
One of Texas' best-kept secrets, this El Paso landmark was built in 1875 for Joseph Magoffin, an early El Paso politician and businessman. With 4ft-thick…
4. Chamizal National Monument
2.34 MILES
This park celebrates the cultures of Mexico, the United States and the borderland between them, as well as the settlement of a property dispute between…
5. Cordova International Bridge (Bridge of the Americas)
2.39 MILES
These two bridges over the Rio Grange connect El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico.
6. El Paso Zoo
2.81 MILES
Home to a large number of endangered animals, including the Asian elephant, Sumatran orangutan, Malayan tiger and the rare Amur leopard. All told, more…
7. First Armored Division & Fort Bliss Museum
4.64 MILES
As the largest air-defense training center in the Western world, Fort Bliss consumes much of the desert northeast of El Paso, and trains troops from all…
8. Western Playland Amusement Park
5.46 MILES
Small but fun, this old-school amusement park (just over the border in New Mexico) is a great way to burn off the pent-up energy of kids on a long drive…