Top rated Museums in Galveston, United States to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Museums in Galveston

Experience the best that Galveston has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 120 places from Museum category.

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Bray's Motor Museum & Playground

Car dealer

5.00 (93 reviews) (~214.93 km from centre)

Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Art museum

👍👍 Wonderful art museum, great buildings.. beautiful new lights and exhibits to view. And love the outside sculpture garden!

4.90 (257 reviews) (~74.28 km from centre)

Kirby-Hill House

Museum

4.90 (68 reviews) (~127.02 km from centre)

Alvin Museum Society

Museum

👍👍 Wow this place is amazing. Signed up to be able to come back multiple times and bring my wife. You want to know any history about the Alvin area and these guys are good. I must have spent two hours just listening to stories and could have spent several days. Really amazing what all they've done to p...

4.90 (55 reviews) (~45.82 km from centre)

Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston

Museum

👍👍 Very well thought out and well made. We had a private tour planned by our host and the guide did a great job taking us through every area showcasing the life of Gandhi.

4.90 (47 reviews) (~81.02 km from centre)

The Pharmacy and Medical Museum of Texas in Cuero

Museum

4.90 (46 reviews) (~243.62 km from centre)

Texas Heroes Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 A beautiful building . The displays are mostly replicas but very interesting and highlight the local history of the jail as well as the heroes of Texas. The docent was amazing ! So full of knowledge their passion for the site really showed. We spent an hour enjoying the stories and conversation ....

4.90 (44 reviews) (~212.24 km from centre)

Chambers House Museum

Museum

Owned by the Chambers family for 90 years, this preserved house is typical of life in the 1920s.

4.90 (38 reviews) (~108.49 km from centre)

Rutherford B H Yates Museum, Inc.

Museum

👍👍 Great history lessons to be learned here and so cool that you get to learn while seeing the actual homes these historic figures lived in! The RBHY group is doing awesome work to preserve the history and share it with the community. Can't wait to see how this museum grows over time!

4.90 (31 reviews) (~75.75 km from centre)

Lone Star Flight Museum

Science museum

Home of the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, with vintage aircraft & rides on war planes.

4.80 (2.4K reviews) (~49.65 km from centre)

Cockrell Butterfly Center

Exhibit

Hundreds of butterflies in a walk-through rainforest habitat, plus insect displays in Brown Hall.

4.80 (1.5K reviews) (~74.04 km from centre)

Museum of the American GI

Museum

Military history museum featuring vehicles, weapons & uniforms, plus historical reenactments.

4.80 (475 reviews) (~192.24 km from centre)

San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site

Museum

👍👍 We happened to go on Stephen F Austin's birthday and they were celebrating with re-enactments!! It was so fun! There is a lot of information in the center so give yourself time to really learn the history of the area. Everyone was so helpful and looked great in the period costumes!

4.80 (437 reviews) (~137.74 km from centre)

HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas

Museum

Nonprofit history museum since 1993 with military artifacts & memorabilia, equipment & guided tours.

4.80 (390 reviews) (~176.28 km from centre)

TFTI - Interactive Selfie Museum

Art museum

👍👍 This was fun experience and a great date night!! We had 17 rooms to go through and there was so many different things you could do in each room. There are props and great lighting. They also offer you a ring light and a shutter button to connect to your phone. It made it easier to take pictures. It...

4.80 (242 reviews) (~80.81 km from centre)

Czech Center Museum Houston

Museum

👍👍 I went with friends to see the Monarch Chamber Music production. The Czech Museum is a very elegant venue. The Museum had free Danish, and you could purchase wine, soft drinks, and water. There were small tables and chairs, plus tall bar tables. The museum was available for viewing, and there was a...

4.80 (223 reviews) (~74.11 km from centre)

Texas Forestry Museum

Museum

Logging-focused museum with hands-on exhibits, old equipment & outdoor trains, plus a gift store.

4.80 (207 reviews) (~227.53 km from centre)

The McFaddin-Ward House Historic Museum

Historical place museum

Historic, period-furnished residence in striking beaux arts style, with guided tours & exhibits.

4.80 (190 reviews) (~108.79 km from centre)

Brazosport Museum of Natural Science

Museum

👍👍 Really nice collections and free to visit. The paleontology hall and "dinosaur island" were impressive for a small museum and I've never seen so many types of seashells.

4.80 (167 reviews) (~66.2 km from centre)

The Art Studio Inc

Art gallery

👍👍 Are you an artist, or art-lover?? You have found your artsy people!! Amazing studio space, memberships, classes, shows, and more! Plus live music!! 🎶 Amazingly sweet and talented owner ❤️ who really keeps the arts alive in SETX! 🙏

4.80 (134 reviews) (~108.86 km from centre)

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