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National Day of the Cowboy

Join us in celebrating that classic Western icon — the cowboy — at the Museum’s commemoration of National Day of the Cowboy! Honor cowboy culture and pioneering heritage while embracing your inner cowboy/girl. Dress up in your Western duds and enjoy performances by Oklahoma Opry, family-friendly activities and crafts while exploring Prosperity Junction and Liichokoshkomo’. …

Summer Drop-In Activities: Beaded Dragonfly

Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create make-and-take crafts, explore galleries and help create pixel art inspired by the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last.  Inspired by the dragonflies featured in the art of the Prix de West Invitation Art Exhibition, create …

Summer Drop-In Activities: Building Block Architecture

Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create make-and-take crafts, explore galleries and help create pixel art inspired by the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last.  After exploring the many indigenous dwellings in Liichokoshkomo’, try your hand at recreating them using building blocks.

Summer Drop-In Activities: Print Making

Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create make-and-take crafts, explore galleries and help create pixel art inspired by the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last.  Be inspired by the art of the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and learn how to …

Summer Drop-In Activities: Gallery Scavenger Hunt

Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create make-and-take crafts, explore galleries and help create pixel art inspired by the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last.  Explore the Prix de West Invitation Art Exhibition with a themed scavenger hunt. Can you find all …

Summer Drop-In Activities: Sunprints

Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create make-and-take crafts, explore galleries and help create pixel art inspired by the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last.  Experience the science and magic of cyanotypes to create art using the sun.

Back To School Bash

Teachers, school staff and their families are invited to the Oklahoma Museums Association (OMA) annual Back to School Bash at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Discover what museums and student-based organizations across the Oklahoma City metro and around the state are offering in the upcoming school year. Educators and museum staff will be …

Kids Take Over the Cowboy: Gold Rush

It is 1848 and everyone is rushing to California to search for gold! Get your gold panning tools and rubber boots, we’re going to learn all about how gold was discovered in the American West and just how hard it was to mine. Enjoy storytime at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Free for members or with …

Curator Conversation: Welcoming Sundown

Art appreciation rarely involves appreciating the daily grind of life as an artist. Come hear the stories that make up the day-to-day trials and tribulations of artists and the people who were responsible for keeping them from starving. Welcome Sundown by Hollis Williford which greets guests at the entrance to the National Cowboy Museum will …

Sunday Spotlight: Oklahoma Run

On the second Sunday of the month, visitors learn the specifics behind a unique artifact from the Museum’s collection, thus opening a window to learning even more about a particular culture, individual or moment in time. Hear from Michael Grauer Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art at the National Cowboy Museum and Victoria Book …

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