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[[Image:Easter exhibit at OS Museum in Post, TX.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Easter egg exhibit atthe  OS Museum]]

[[Image:Easter exhibit at OS Museum in Post, TX.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Easter egg exhibit atthe  OS Museum]]

'''The OS Museum,''' also known as the '''OS Ranch Museum''', is a hybrid collection of mainly sculpture and paintings of [[Texas]], the American West, and [[Asia]] located in the small city of Post, the seat of Garza County, forty in West Texas. It was founded by [[Giles McCrary|Giles Connell McCrary, Sr.]],<ref name=mccrary>{{citeone miles south of [[Lubbock]]. web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030207/loc_030207075.shtml|author=D. Lance Lunsford|title="The real deal: A global traveler, collector, Post's Giles McCrary driven by the genuine things in life"|date=March 7, 2007|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=April 20, 2011}}</ref> a rancher and [[business]]ma whose grandfather was an early proprietor of the nearby ranch for which the museum is named. However, the museum exhibits are largely unrelated to the OS Ranch itself. The [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]] [[Francisco Coronado]] passed through this part of Garza County in the 16th century.<ref name=osranch>{{cite web|url=http://pjhscyberfair.tripod.com/OS_Ranch.htm|title=O.S. Ranch & Museum|publisher=pjhscyberfair.tripod.com|accessdate=April 20, 2011}}</ref>

'''The OS Museum,''' also known as the '''OS Ranch Museum''', is a hybrid collection of mainly sculpture and paintings of [[Texas]], the American West, and [[Asia]] located in the small city of Post, the seat of Garza County, forty in West Texas. It was founded by [[Giles McCrary|Giles Connell McCrary, Sr.]],<ref name=mccrary>{{citeone miles south of [[Lubbock]]. web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030207/loc_030207075.shtml|author=D. Lance Lunsford|title="The real deal: A global traveler, collector, Post's Giles McCrary driven by the genuine things in life"|date=March 7, 2007|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=April 20, 2011}}</ref> a rancher and [[business]]ma whose grandfather was an early proprietor of the nearby ranch for which the museum is named. However, the museum exhibits are largely unrelated to the OS Ranch itself. The [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]] [[Francisco Vasquez de Coronado]] passed through this part of Garza County in the 16th century.<ref name=osranch>{{cite web|url=http://pjhscyberfair.tripod.com/OS_Ranch.htm|title=O.S. Ranch & Museum|publisher=pjhscyberfair.tripod.com|accessdate=April 20, 2011}}</ref>

Known for the quality of its exhibits, the museum is located at 201 East Main Street in Post on the second floor in the rear of one of the original buildings constructed there in 1911 by cereal magnate Charles William "C.W." Post (1854-1914), the founder of the community. The building formerly served as the community meeting room. Originally, it had housed the office of the Post Land and Cattle Company. The OS rotates exhibits three times a year.<ref name=osranch/>

Known for the quality of its exhibits, the museum is located at 201 East Main Street in Post on the second floor in the rear of one of the original buildings constructed there in 1911 by cereal magnate Charles William "C.W." Post (1854-1914), the founder of the community. The building formerly served as the community meeting room. Originally, it had housed the office of the Post Land and Cattle Company. The OS rotates exhibits three times a year.<ref name=osranch/>