Smithsonian’s Hall of Petroleum
The National Museum of American History once featured derricks, pump jacks, and other oilfield technologies.
The Smithsonian Institution’s “Hall of Petroleum” in Washington, D.C., opened in the summer of 1967 inside a museum wing devoted to the history of oilfield technology. The collection included cable-tool and rotary drilling rigs and many oilfield-related geology and engineering exhibits. (more…)
