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 …
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 …
Celebrate the season with Santa and visit Prosperity Junction, the Museum’s circa-1900 frontier town decorated for the holidays. Find Howe and Dee the Cowboy Elves to earn your own special prize! Get photos with Santa and drop off your wish lists. Craft Western-inspired ornaments, pinecone birdfeeders, Christmas tree decorations, complete a scavenger hunt through the …
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will host the 25th annual Express Employment Professionals’ Cowboy Christmas Ball featuring American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey. This year’s yuletide event will once again feature an evening of entertainment for the entire family. Murphey is a multiple Grammy nominee with six gold albums, including “Cowboy Songs” – the …
King Ranch: A Legacy in Art; Paintings by Noe Perez presents evocative visual narratives through Perez’s paintings and artifacts from and about King Ranch. The exhibition reveals the lifeways and traditions of King Ranch and its place in the artistic heritage of the American West. Perez’s landscapes, genre scenes, wildlife and livestock paintings serve as …
