Tyler Museums
The 1904 Carnegie Library building today houses the museum and archives of the non-profit Smith County Historical Society. Museum hours are 10am to 4pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Archive hours are 1pm to 4pm, Wednesdays only. Free admission.
The Tyler Museum of Art contains over 600 pieces in its permanent collection, concentrating on local artists from the 19th and 20th century. In addition, there are also works from Dutch painters from the 16th and 17th century, and a regularly changing series of travelling exhibits.
Tyler is known to many as the "Rose Capital of America", and this museum covers the history of how that came to be. Exhibits include artefacts from the Tyler Rose Festival back to 1935, and a look at the rose industry and its continued growth in the area. Over 500 varieties of roses bloom in season in the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden.






