El Paso Museum of Art
One Arts Festival Plaza
El Paso, TX 79901
(915) 532-1707
www.elpasoartmuseum.org
(Free Admission)
The Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 5,000 works of art, including the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art from the 13th-18th centuries, American art from the 19th-20th centuries, Mexican colonial art and retablos from the 18th-19th centuries, works on paper, and contemporary art from the Southwestern United States and Mexico.

Centennial Museum and Desert Gardens
University of Texas at El Paso
(915) 747-5565
museum.utep.edu
The Museum’s permanent exhibits focus on the natural and cultural history of the Chihuahuan Desert region, the largest desert in North America, extending from central New Mexico deep into Mexico. The extensive stored collections of the Centennial are available for scholarly research. In the temporary galleries, the Museum presents a wide range of exhibits on themes related to border life and culture.  It is closed during UTEP home football games.

The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center
101 S. Kansas
El Paso, Texas
(915) 351-0048
elpasoholocaustmuseum.org
(Free Admission)
The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center was established in 1992 in memory of those killed by the Nazis, in honor of the survivors who endured the terrors and with respect for those who lost family and friends. The Museum’s goals are to combat prejudice and bigotry through education and to instill into mankind the value and dignity of human life.

Museum of Archeology at Wilderness Park
4301 Transmountain Road
El Paso, TX 79924
(915) 755-4332
www.elpasotexas.gov/arch_museum
(Free Admission)
The El Paso Museum of Archaeology tells the story of the first inhabitants of the El Paso area, the greater Southwest, and northern Mexico. Dioramas and exhibits in the museum narrate and depict American Indian lives and display their material culture from the Paleoindian hunters of the Ice Age to their modern Indian descendants

Fort Bliss Museums
Air Defense Artillery Museum
Fort Bliss Museum
Building 1735, Marshall Road
ATZC-GC-M,
Fort Bliss, TX 79916-3802
(915) 568-3390
www.bliss.army.mil/Museum/fort_bliss_museum.htm
(Free Admission)
The museum focuses on the history of Fort Bliss and shows the impact of the U.S. Army on El Paso, the southwest, the nation, and the world.

Paso al Norte Museum
500 W. University
El Paso, Texas 79968-9991
(915) 747-8679
The Paso al Norte Museum is dedicated to presenting the story of migration along the borderlands of the United States and Mexico to promote an understanding of the shared history of two nations.

Railroad Museum of El Paso,
www.elpasorails.org
P.O. Box 5722,
El Paso, TX 79955
(915) 422-3420

The Tularosa Basin Historical Society
1301 North White Sands Blvd.
Alamogordo, New Mexico  88310
(505) 434-4438
(Free Admission)

National Border Patrol Museum
4315 Trans Mountain Road
El Paso, TX 79924
(915) 759-6060
www.borderpatrolmuseum.com
(Free Admission)
This museum looks at the history of the U.S. Border Patrol from the beginning in the Old West, through Prohibition, World War II, into the high-tech Patrol of today.  The museum exhibits uniforms, equipment, photographs, guns, vehicles, airplanes, boats and documents depicting historical and current date sector operations throughout the United States.

War Eagles Air Museum
Doña Ana County Airport
8012 Airport Rd.
Santa Teresa, NM  88008
(505) 589-2000
www.war-eagles-air-museum.com
The War Eagles Air Museum is dedicated to restoring and displaying historic aircraft of the World War II and the Korean Conflict eras. Most of the museum’s collection is maintained in flying condition. A really cool display of planes and cars.

Magoffin Home State Historic Site
1120 Magoffin Avenue
El Paso TX 79901
(915) 533-5147
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/magoffin_home/
This nineteen room, adobe home is an example of Territorial style architecture. This style developed in the southwest in the mid-1800s and combined local materials and then fashionable mid-Victorian wood trim.

The El Paso Zoo
4001 E. Paisano
El Paso, TX 79905-4223
(915) 521-1850
www.elpasozoo.org
The El Paso Zoo is home to about 240 species of animals. Approximately 500 mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, 700 fish and 500 invertebrates live in a variety of natural habitat exhibits in the zoo.