When Wiess Energy Hall opened up at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in the 1960s, it was little more than some used oilfield equipment and a few interactive displays. Since then, however, it has grown to include a 60 percent-scale working replica of an offshore drilling rig drill floor, a documentary depicting the history of energy and a simulated flight to Karnes County, Texas, to experience the hydraulic fracturing of an oil well from inside the cracked rock.
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