Weather is such a huge part of life in Oklahoma and we want your kids to know how to be safe when storms roll through. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Chief Meteorologist David Payne and the News 9 Weather Team to learn about the different types of severe weather in our state and what …
Come in your best Western or Halloween get-up Trick-or-treat through Prosperity Junction and outdoor Town Square Explore the maker space and let your imagination run wild HalloWest Crafts • Face Painting • Fast-draw Target Practice • Western Dancing • Meet Chester Scissortail, the Museum’s Mascot • Historic Re-enactors • Candy-Free Treats Available • Western Stories …
Enjoy an exciting day of learning and exploring! See galleries filled with Western art and artifacts. Explore Liichokoshkomo’, an outdoor interactive, multi-cultural education space that introduces the American West through science, technology, engineering, arts, math and citizenship in an immersive hands-on, minds-on environment. Students can: Be sure to visit our temporary exhibitions Black Cowboys: An American …
Take a break from exploring Museum galleries and learn about Jackson Sundown – a famed saddle bronc rider whose name went down in history. Known as the first Native American to win a major rodeo championship, this Nez Perce cowboy inspires The Cowboy’s logo. Stop by the Heritage Table to learn more about Jackson Sundown’s …
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Rodeo Historical Society host the annual Rodeo Hall of Fame Weekend celebrating rodeo legends’ induction into the Rodeo Hall of Fame as well as the Ben Johnson Memorial Award and Tad Lucas Memorial Award recipients.
Join Ronald Davis, curator of the exhibition Black Cowboys, in exploring the use of enslaved labor on ranches and plantations in the U.S. South. He will trace the labor of enslaved herds people from Colonial South Carolina to Texas until the Civil War and their lived experiences. Davis will also share about the closing of …
Celebrate Oklahoma Statehood Day and watch Oklahoma history come to life in a performance by Oklahoma Opry. This program teaches Oklahoma history through music and culture. Follow along with the listening guide to reveal interesting facts about Oklahoma. Museum galleries are open for self-directed tours. Program lasts approximately one hour. Suitable for older elementary through …
Only a handful of Native American fluent speakers remain of the Omaha Tribe. Fluent speaking elders reflect on growing up speaking their native language, the efforts that was taken from outsiders to phase it out and why it is so important to preserve it. This documentary is a 2018 Red Nation International Film Festival Best …
From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …
Relax from the stresses of the holidays! Visit the Museum for a Holiday Wine-Down painting class under instruction from A Good Space Studio. Inspired by paintings featured in the Museum galleries, create your own Western holiday masterpiece. Not artistically inclined? Never fear; canvases will be prepped to ensure every artist is successful. $50; $45 for Museum members. All …
