West Kern Oil Museum

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1168 Wood St
Taft, CA 93268
+1 (661) 765-6664
http://www.westkern-oilmuseum.org

The West Kern Oil Museum, located in Taft, California, is a volunteer-operated institution dedicated to preserving the area's rich history and the petroleum industry. The museum features indoor and outdoor exhibits that chronicle the local heritage from the earliest inhabitants to the oil pioneers and the development of the oil industry.

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4.512 reviews
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Christopher H.
7/15/2019

Taft, California. This museum/plantation is one of a kind. I have never been to any type of museum catered to petro. The equipment and the sizes are jaw dropping. They have a gigantic oil...

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Isobel L.
10/31/2015

This museum totally, totally rocks. A museum, in an ideal word, guides you to another plane or sphere or alternate universe. It transforms, transfigures, transports. It blows your mind and tells...

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Paul L.
8/30/2013

Unless you work at the prison or are employed in the agricultural or oil sectors, you probably don't have a reason to visit Taft. There's still oil here although you won't see the over 7,000...

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Donny S.
11/24/2022

If you want to know all about oil industry go to the board museum in Taft they have the knowledge they have is amazing and they'll tell you all about it where we come from where we end up...

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Tom B.
7/11/2016

WEST KERN OIL MUSEUM is located just off Highway 5, that great thoroughfare that takes you from Los Angeles to just east of Oakland, and back. Aside from the occasional open-bin tomato truck...

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