The Wood River Refinery History Museum documents the construction, operation, growth, & contributions of the refinery and its employees over their 100+ year history of providing petroleum productions for the St. Louis area in particular and the surrounding Midwest in general

Museum visiting hours:
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Wednesdays
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Thursdays

If those times don’t work for you, we can make arrangements to open at a different time.
Call (618-255-3718) or email the museum (wrrmu@p66.com) for more information.

NEWS: We are diligently digitizing old refinery newsletters, which you can view and download by clicking on the buttons at the bottom of each About the Refinery decade page. The newsletters have optical character recognition (OCR), which means you can search them for people’s names (or any other test). It’s a tedious process, so it will take several months digitize all of them.

The Main Building

The 1952-1966 Mileage Marathon record holder (168.47 mpg)
Kiosks display various time periods in the refinery’s history, as well as employee activities on and off the job
A video room can show short features of events in the refinery’s history

Buildings 2 and 3

A restored 1918 Shell tank truck and other large equipment in Building 2
An engine for measuring octane number
A gasoline engine driven fire pump
Wearables, safety items, and tools are in Building 3

The Wood River Refinery History Museum is also on Facebook

From time to time we’ll post news items and articles from our archives on our Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/WRRMuseum/

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