One of the top museums in the Texas Panhandle closed suddenly last week.
The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, just south of Amarillo, preserves millions of artifacts. The buildings are owned by West Texas A&M University, while the Panhandle Plains Historical Society is entrusted with the artifacts and mission.
A visit from the state fire marshal’s office in March found about a dozen violations and gave the museum a week to fix them. That didn’t happen, so the museum is closed…