{"id":10,"date":"2021-05-13T05:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:48:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Museum visiting hours: <\/strong>
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Wednesdays<\/strong>
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Thursdays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NEWS:<\/strong> The annual June Luncheon<\/strong> is Tuesday, June 9<\/strong>. It\u2019s open to all WRR Retiree Association members (including new retirees!) and their guests. Members should have received their invitations by now but in case you didn\u2019t get one and want to attend, please call the museum at 618-255-3718 and leave a message or email wrrmu@p66.com.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Main Building<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The 1952-1966 Mileage Marathon record holder (168.47 mpg)<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kiosks display various time periods in the refinery’s history, as well as employee activities on and off the job<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A video room can show short features of events in the refinery’s history<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Buildings 2 and 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A restored 1918 Shell tank truck and other large equipment in Building 2<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An engine for measuring octane number<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A gasoline engine driven fire pump<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wearables, safety items, and tools are in Building 3<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Wood River Refinery History Museum is also on Facebook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From time to time we’ll post news items and articles from our archives on our Facebook page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WRRMuseum\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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NEWS: The annual June Luncheon is Tuesday, June 9. It\u2019s open to all WRR Retiree Association members (including new retirees!) and their guests. Members should have received their invitations by now but in case you didn\u2019t get one and want to attend, please call the museum at 618-255-3718 and leave a message or email wrrmu@p66.com….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrrmuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}