Midgley Museum

The Midgley Museum is a city-owned museum located in the city of Enid, Oklahoma. The museum's exhibits include a large mineral and rock collection that features a 7,000-pound petrified stump and fluorescent rocks that must be viewed under a black light. The items displayed in the museum were collected by the Midgley family that came to the United States from England in the 1870s. Wheat and hay farmers, the Midgleys collected exotic rocks while traveling to sell their harvests. The family commissioned Texas stonemasons to construct a home from rocks they had excavated.They donated their collections and the home as a museum to the city of Enid