Heritage Museum
Big Spring, Texas
The Heritage Museum in Big Spring is small and filled with lots of "collections". The museum did cost, unlike many of the other museums on our travels. The museum is housed in a very large building but the museum itself only takes up a very small amount of it. Supposedly, the rest of the museum is used for storage and research. The first floor of the museum usually houses a temporary exhibit but on our visit there was not one, but it did have a few pictures up of rodeo clowns, but we were not sure of the origins of the clowns, if they were local or not. Upstairs is the collections. A curio cabinet holds a collection of domino's from a local man who gave them to the museum for display. One room is home to a very large collection of phonographs. Another area displayed an extensive amount of doll collections from the British monarchy to Star Trek. Off of the doll room was a shadow room, where a light flashes to create shadows on the wall, what is had to do with the museum I am not sure. The kids loved this part and we spent the majority of our time in the shadow room making shadows. A short video plays about the local Bull Fighting woman from Big Spring, Patricia McCormick along with an outfit from her time in the ring. A wall displays the large collection of longhorns including the largest in the world. A small case shows a collection of guns and a wall display explains the origins of the name "Big Spring". Two other small rooms show collections of ranching tools and physician tools. The museum had a small theatre but movies were not being shown at the time we were there. A fully stocked gift shop is also on the first floor of the building.
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