Welcome to Boley, Oklahoma — one of the first Historic Black Towns in the West. While you’re here, let’s go to the Boley Rodeo! Try your hand at Boley Rodeo events and create your own rodeo cowboy vest and accessories. Additionally, learn about the life of a Buffalo Soldier, Exoduster and Oklahoma Blues Hall of …
One day to celebrate love is not enough! Visit the Museum any time during February 1 – 14 and show your love for your favorite piece of art or artifact. Pick up a heart at Visitor Services, leave it by your selection and share on social media using #MyWest and #HeartsForArt. While visiting, pick up …
“A crime has been committed in Prosperity Junction. A prominent citizen has been murdered. You have been deputized to help find out what happened.” Relive your childhood by playing the popular board game Clue, IRL! Join us in our re-created 19th century frontier town as we work to solve a crime and interview suspects to determine: …
Join us for a professional development opportunity for teachers at the National Cowboy Museum in collaboration with the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma. This educator workshop focuses on how “play” can be used effectively in classroom instruction. Participants will engage with content experts, Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture …
The West was built by strong and resilient women who you can find examples of in the Museum’s galleries! Stop by the Museum’s Heritage Table to learn about Stagecoach Mary Fields – the first Black woman mail carrier in the United States. Discover the importance of the stagecoach in Mary’s story and create your own …
In honor of the Museum’s exhibits celebrating the history of toys and play in the West, we’re bringing back the nostalgia of Saturday morning cartoons and cereal. Kids can come in their best pjs, sample Western-themed cereals and make their own toys. Be sure to check out Playing Cowboy, You Have Died of Dysentery and …
Watch Oklahoma history come to life at the National Cowboy Museum with stage performances by Rodeo Opry. This interactive program teaches Oklahoma history, music and culture with an emphasis on lawmen and outlaws and the often-blurry lines between the two as detailed in the exhibition outLAWmen. Program begins at 10:30 a.m. and is approximately one …
Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create a different make-and-take craft each day. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last. Use the mysterious scratch art paper to make colorful spring art!
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this rousing comedy adventure set during the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) hit the mother lode, Sam agrees to go to Seattle to bring George’s sweetheart back to Alaska. But since she’s married to someone else, Sam invites a …
The Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic of the American West follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. A love story, an adventure and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove …
