Oklahoma City is home to many world-class museums and historical venues. Throughout the year, you can learn about a wide variety of topics through special exhibitions and displays.
This guide will help you find all the exhibits currently on display in museums across the OKC metro. This list is updated frequently, so check back often for new exhibits and other learning opportunities! You can also check out our guide to FREE museums in the metro.
American Banjo Museum
(9 E Sheridan Ave) 405-604-2793; Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Adults, $8; kids (5-17), $6; kids (under 5), free; families (2 adults, 2 kids), $15
Women of the Banjo
A special exhibit at the American Banjo Museum Women of the Banjo chronicles the contributions of women to the colorful past, vibrant present, and unlimited future of the banjo. From prominent contemporary performers such as Alison Brown and Rhiannon Giddens to pop icons Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton and many others, historic insights, instruments, stage attire, and a glimpse of ever-changing fashion trends all help in the telling of this important aspect of banjo history.
Armstrong Auditorium on the campus of Herbert W. Armstrong College
(14400 S Bryant Ave, Edmond) 405-285-1010; Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday & Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Kingdom of David and Solomon Discovered
Feb. 26, 2024-May 15, 2025
The exhibit includes over three dozen artifacts from biblical Israel’s First Temple period and will mark the world premiere of the extraordinary Ophel inscription, which some have linked to the biblical Queen of Sheba’s visit to King Solomon.
ARTSPACE at Untitled
(1 NE 3rd St) 405-815-9995; Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
A Balance of Nature, Jeanine Coupe Ryding Exhibition
April 3-May 9, 2025
Ryding focuses primarily on woodcut prints, etchings, artist’s books, drawing and collage. Her prints and artist’s books are in museum and private collections throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan.e.
FiberWorks
May 16-June 27, 2025
This juried fine fiber art event showcases Oklahoma artists who work in weaving, needlework, basketry, quilting, soft sculpture, beading, paper, knitting, crocheting, felting, and artwork primarily constructed of fiber
Edmond Fine Arts Institute
(27 E Edwards St, Edmond) 405-340-4481; Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Gallery
Features the work of a different local artist each month. The Edmond Fine Arts Gallery is open daily for public viewing Monday-Friday or by appointment.
- May – Growing Garden, vibrant and textural works of Oklahoma City-based mixed media artist Kyndall Rainey
- June – “In Focus” Group Show
- July – Marie Kash Weltzheimer
- August – “Small Works” Group Show
- September – Jay Holobach
- October – Clayton Beavers & VC Torneden
- November – Behnaz Sorhabian
- December – Reian Willians
Edmond History Museum
(431 S Boulevard, Edmond) 340-0078; Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 1-4 p.m.
Admission is free.
Mysterious Machines: Hosted by Edmond’s Visiting Extra-Terrestrial
Oct. 24, 2024 – summer of 2025
Milty, a friendly extra-terrestrial, is fascinated by the 20th-century machines. He is baffled by the machines on display at the museum. Some of the artifacts, dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, might look familiar, while others will not. Museum visitors are invited to muse over Milty’s guesses before reading the true history of each machine in an answer binder.
Edmond’s African American History: Land Run to Integration
Online Exhibit
The topic of African Americans in Edmond is often questioned, mostly because of its absence. From the 1920s until the 1970s, no African Americans lived in Edmond. The influence of the Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, and even Oklahoma City Public Schools integration affected Edmond, which was promoted as “100% white” for many years. This digital exhibit explores the history of African American families in Edmond, segregation and more. This exhibit was originally developed as a companion piece to the traveling exhibit The Power of Children, which EHS&M hosted in the fall of 2017. It has been expanded and adapted slightly in order to function better as a digital exhibit.
Exhibit C Art Gallery
(645 First Americans Blvd, OKC) Sunday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Exhibit C is now open in their new space in the Horizons District, between First Americans Museum and OKANA Resort & Waterpark.
Emergence: Explorations of New Horizons
Through July 15, 2025
This exhibition celebrates a new chapter and the gallery’s new home in Horizons District, focusing on new beginnings, regeneration and creation.
Factory Obscura
(25 NW 9th St) Monday & Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-6 p.m.
Adults, $22; kids (4-12), $15; kids (3 & under), free
Mixed-Tape
Ongoing
Mixed-Tape is a 20th-century take on the classic audio autobiography. The exhibition is a 6,000-square-foot, hand-crafted, immersive art experience.
PARTY!
May 25 – Sept. 29, 2025
Created by artists Krista Jo Mustain and Emily Madden in collaboration with Factory Obscura, PARTY! is a cozy, safe landing spot where you can escape the mundane and rest in the joy of nostalgia.
Federal Judicial Learning Center & Museum
(215 Dean A. McGee Ave) Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission is free.
More information coming soon.
Firehouse Art Center
(444 S Flood Ave, Norman) 405-329-4523; Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Limited Edition
May 22-Aug. 1, 2025
See comic books in a whole new light.
First Americans Museum
(659 First Americans Blvd) 405-594-2100; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Adults, $15; kids (4-12), $5; kids (3 & under), free
One Place, Many Nations: Acknowledging the 39
Ongoing
The installment takes a deep dive into the unique histories, cultures, contributions and resilience of each of the 39 tribes that call Oklahoma home. Hands-on activities, interactive experiences, educational opportunities and rotating objects that share cultural experiences are all features of the exhibition.
Chef Loretta’s Garden
Newly opened
Discover First American food traditions at the museum’s latest attraction, Chef Loretta’s Garden. In collaboration with Shape Your Future, FAM Consulting Chef Loretta Barrett Oden (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) has cultivated a vibrant teaching garden that features edible plants indigenous to the Americas, such as corn, tomatoes and peppers. Throughout the year, flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables will change with the seasons. Interpretive signage provides information about each plant and includes QR code links to healthy and simple recipes developed by the chef.
The new garden is open during the museum’s operating hours, weather permitting. Gallery admission or restaurant patronage is not required to visit.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
(555 Elm, Norman) 325-4938; Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Adults, $12; kids (under 18), free. No admission fee is required on the 2nd Friday of each month.
A Colorful Dream
April 11,-Aug. 10, 2025
A Colorful Dream is a family-friendly, interactive exhibition by contemporary fine art photographer Adrien Broom. The exhibit features a suite of photographs, some of them large in scale, detailing a young girl’s journey as she discovers a series of monochromatic fantasy worlds exploring the rich hues and associations that we have with every color in the spectrum.
Mabee-Gerrer Museum Art
(1900 W MacArthur, Shawnee) Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
Adults, $5; kids (6-17), $3; Kids (5 & under), free.
Reflections on Water
May 17-July 20, 2025
This exhibit features artwork ranging from the seventeenth century to contemporary from our permanent collection that includes rivers, lakes, oceans, or other bodies of water.
Metropolitan Library System
(300 Park Ave, OKC) 405-789-8363, Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-6 p.m.
More info coming soon.
Moore-Lindsay Historic House Museum
(508 N Peters Ave, Norman) 405-321-0156; Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Admission is free.
Myriad Gardens Visitor Center
(301 W Reno Ave) 405-445-7080; Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission is free to see art.
Landscapes, Spirits
April 10-May 29, 2025
VC Torneden is a multidisciplinary artist who works in a range of mediums including graphite, ink, charcoal, watercolor and oil, as well as photography. Her current projects include a series incorporating both painting and photography about her years spent living in Tulsa and a collaborative documentary photo project entitled The Other Side which seeks to chronical Route 66 in the years just ahead of its centennial.
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
(1700 NE 63rd) 478-2250; Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Adults, $15; students, $10; kids, (6-12), $5; kids (5 & under), free
Code of the West
Code of the WestNow Open
This new interactive exhibit allows guests to see themselves through the ethos of the American Cowboy. Using the Code of the West, guests can experience an interactive exploration of personal character traits and aspirations that will lead to meaningful conversations between young and old.
Find Your West
Now Open
The immersive, projection-mapped exhibit features four vignettes, telling the stories of Cowboy, Native American, Ranching and Rodeo cultures, showing both the historic realities and thriving contemporary facts and imagery of these diverse and distinct Western cultures. Situated within The Cowboy’s West Hallway, the large-scale, floor-to-ceiling exhibit also encircles visitors in western vistas and tells the story of the migration West of America’s early pioneers by immersing them in the sights and sounds of the American frontier.
Cowboy Boots: From Roundups to Runways
Feb. 7-May 4, 2025
The exhibition will delve into the fascinating transformation of riding boots from the 1860s — drawing inspiration from European styles and Civil War-era cavalry boots — to the revolutionary designs mass-produced by Hyer and Justin in the 1870s that shaped the cowboy boots we know and love today. Visitors will uncover the pivotal role of cowboy boots in the American West during the cattle trail era and explore how advancements in entertainment and manufacturing catapulted them into mainstream culture by the early 20th century.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
(415 Couch Dr) 236-3100; Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Adults, $16.95 plus tax; kids (17 & under), free – Beginning January 2024, visitors of all ages will receive access to the museum at no cost on the second Sunday of each month.
The Three Shades
Aug. 24, 2024-Aug. 23, 2026
A single-gallery installation featuring one of the masterworks of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin’s The Three Shades, on loan from a private collection. Often referred to as “the father of modern sculpture,” Rodin is considered one of the most renowned and influential French sculptors of the late nineteenth century.
Land Use: Humanity’s Interaction with Nature
Dec. 20, 2024-Sept. 28, 2025
This gallery features modern and contemporary paintings, photographs, video art, and digital art that relate to humanity’s use of and interaction with the environment. While a few of the more traditional landscapes in this gallery depict the common land use of farming, others instead touch on the environmental consequences of certain agricultural practices, energy production from nature, ways that humanity has physically transformed land in the past, and Environmental Art.
Dale Chihuly: The Oklahoma Collection
Opened March 8, 2025
Widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists of the late twentieth century, Dale Chihuly has spent his career pushing the boundaries of glass, his primary medium. For nearly six decades, he has experimented with bold color, innovative techniques and organic forms. Dale Chihuly: The Oklahoma Collection features five decades of the artist’s sculptures and works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection, one of the largest public collections of Chihuly artwork in the world.
Art in Bloom
April 11-13, 2025
Talented Oklahoma florists will showcase their artistic skills by crafting floral sculptures to display in the museum’s galleries.
Discovering Ansel Adams
June 7-Sept. 28, 2025
Discovering Ansel Adams features over 100 photographs that share Adams’s most celebrated works while revealing aspects of his development that are frequently overlooked. Together with original archival materials from the Center of Creative Photography’s Ansel Adams Archive, these photographs demonstrate how Adams transformed from a fourteen-year-old tourist with a camera into a renowned photographer between 1916 and the 1940s.
Paul Reed: A Retrospective
Nov. 22, 2025-April 12, 2026
Paul Reed: A Retrospective offers a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s seven-decade career. Organized chronologically, the exhibition will present a survey of Reed’s art and accomplishments from his early days as a graphic designer in 1950s New York to his success as one of the founding artists of the Washington Color School in the 1960s to the aesthetic and technological reinventions of his later work.
Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
(620 N Harvey Ave) 405-235-3313; Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Adults, $15; kids (6-17), $12; kids (5 & under), free.
Remembering Through Art
The new exhibit is a project commissioned by a Broken Arrow High School art teacher to connect students to the loss experienced on April 19, 1995. Each art student chose one person from the 168 who were killed, researched that person and created a work of art in their honor. These works of art illustrate empathy and compassion and celebrate 168 uniquely different lives.
More Than Two Decades of Building. Together.
The new exhibit reveals how Oklahoma City came together to rebuild and remember. Starting with a mission statement and sacred ground to memorialize, family members, survivors, first responders, designers and the community created a Memorial and Museum to tell the story of the senselessness of violence and share lessons learned.
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
(11 NW 11th St) 405-951-0000; Wednesday-Monday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, until 9 p.m.
Admission is free.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Honor Song
Jan. 30-Oct. 20, 2025
This landmark exhibition will be the first retrospective for internationally recognized artist Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation) in his state of residence, featuring multimedia works from an impressive and lauded 40-year career. The exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory from the 1970s to the present through over 90 prints, drawings, paintings, glass sculptures, road signs, public art and site-specific installations, newly commissioned pieces and archival materials.
A Place Between – The Oklahoma Contemporary Teen Arts Council Exhibition
Feb. 28-May 2, 2025
This multimedia exhibition explores the personal experiences of current high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. Inspired by Edgar Heap of Birds’s legacy and artwork, the exhibition draws strength from his poetic use of language, his reckoning with unresolved histories, and his mindfulness toward community and land.
ArtNow 2025: Materials and Boundaries
Sept. 20, 2025-Feb. 16, 2026
This exhibition is an exploration of Oklahoma’s identity, showcasing work created by contemporary artists utilizing the themes of place and self with experimental materials and new practices.
Campbell Art Park (11th & Broadway)
Edgar Heap of Birds: Neufs for Oklahoma Autumn
Opening April 24, 2025
Neufs for Oklahoma Autumn is a basketball court installation commissioned as a public art iteration of the Neuf painting series (1981—ongoing) by renowned artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation).
Oklahoma Hall of Fame
(1400 Classen Dr.) 235-4458; Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Adults, $7; kids (6-17), $5; kids (5 & under), free – Complimentary admission is offered on the second Saturday of each month and Thursdays between Memorial & Labor Day.
Lights, Lyrics, Legends: Trailblazing Entertainers
April 29, 2024-April 26, 2025
From opera to Broadway, rodeo to songwriting, “Lights, Lyrics, Legends: Trailblazing Entertainers” features the inspiring journeys of 18 Oklahoma Hall of Fame Inductees who have not only shaped Oklahoma’s cultural landscape but also have made profound contributions to the American entertainment industry. Through their passion and dedication, they’ve paved the way for future generations of Oklahomans to shine on the world stage.
Perle Mesta: Legendary Philanthropist & Diplomat
Aug. 13, 2024-Aug. 2, 2025
This exhibit details the life and accomplishments of Perle Mesta, an independent woman ahead of her time.
Across Spaces in the Tulsa World
Feb. 4-April 26, 2025
Discover the beauty and depth of the in-between with Across Spaces, an exhibition that explores the significance of transitions—between moments, places, and identities. Featuring the works of Irmgard Geul and Farooq Karim, this exhibition invites you to reflect on the power of transformation and connection.
(800 Nazih Zuhdi) 522-0765; Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Adults, $12.50; students, $9; kids (4 & under), free; families (up to 6 people), $35
Editor’s note: The Oklahoma History Center Museum (OHCM) has joined “Museums for All,” offering $1 admission for EBT and Oklahoma Tribal EBT cardholders, as well as for participants of Oklahoma Fosters and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma.
The Art of Woody Big Bow
Now Open
Kiowa artist Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Big Bow, who was born in Carnegie, studied art at the University of Oklahoma under the instruction of Oscar B. Jacobson. Big Bow is best known for the logo he designed for Oklahoma’s 45th Infantry Division. The exhibit, “The Art of Woody Big Bow,” includes sketches and other iterations of the 45th Infantry logo from the Oklahoma Historical Society’s collection.
Inaugural Impressions: Oklahoma’s First Ladies Go to the Ball
June 7, 2024-May 30, 2025
The exhibit will feature an array of gowns worn by first ladies and will explore women’s roles, accomplishments and contributions by highlighting how our first ladies developed civic responsibility while navigating the social conventions of past eras. The exhibit follows the evolution of their roles, forged in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and beyond. After 1979, Oklahoma’s first ladies took on more active and vocal roles in response to the state’s social fabric. Interactive exhibit components will allow children and adults to explore the history of social practices, don clothing from other eras, and present themselves as if they were attending an inaugural ball.
Oklahoma Sports Heroes
Opened Dec. 21
75 Years of Television in Oklahoma
Opened July 25, 2024
This exhibit features a collection of images from early post-war black-and-white sets that revisit the era when a generation of Baby Boomers was raised on the innovative creativity of television. On June 6, 1949, at 7 p.m., WKY-TV went on the air, introducing television to Oklahoma audiences. At the time, television was a new medium, touted as “a modern miracle” by The Daily Oklahoman newspaper. As Oklahoma began the new venture, the invention of television became a real turning point in American culture, effectively improving the economy and creating a paradigm shift in how people experienced entertainment and shared information.
Oklahoma City Zoo Patricia & Byron J. Gambulos ZooZeum
(2000 Remington Pl) 405-424-3344; open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
More info coming soon
Oklahoma State Capitol
(2300 N Lincoln Blvd) 405-521-6813; weekdays, 8 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; weekends, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Betty Price Gallery
Reopened February 2025
The Betty Price Gallery, located on the second floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol, houses the Oklahoma State Art Collection. The collection is a visual anthology of the history of artistic expression in Oklahoma. Curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council, exhibitions feature works of art by artists who were born in, trained in or have produced a significant portion of their work in the state. For more information, visit arts.ok.gov/tours or email tours@arts.ok.gov.
Red Earth Art Center
(100 N Broadway Ave, Ste 2750) 405-427-5228; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Innate Connections
April 2-June 13, 2025
This exhibit delves into the compelling works of Eric Tippeconnic, a distinguished Comanche artist known for his vivid use of color and dynamic depiction of movement. See a selection of paintings that celebrate the living traditions and the adaptability of Native American cultures.
Sam Noble Museum
(2401 Chautauqua, Norman) 405-325-4712; Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Adults, $12; kids (4-17), $7; kids (3 & under) free
Walking in Antarctica
April 5-Aug. 10, 2025
Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition that combines photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that few people get to witness in person. The exhibition is organized as a series of “walks” through remarkable Antarctic landscapes. Visitors with smartphones can access an audio tour narrated by Glazer.
Science Museum Oklahoma
(2020 Remington Pl) 405-602-6664; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. – Complimentary admission offered during the Museum’s Tinkerfest event.
Adults, $20.95; kids (3-12), $15.95
POV: Perspectives in Anamorphic Art
Through Feb. 2026
The art exhibition features works by renowned artists Jonty Hurwitz, Leon Keer, Michael Murphy, Carnovsky and Candace Hicks. Highlighting the intersection of art and science through illusion, POV offers an interactive experience in which guests use visual and physical cues to discover mind-bending perspectives. Entry to smART Space is included in general admission.
SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology
(10301 S Sunnylane Rd) 405-814-0006; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Adults, $11; kids (3-12), $9
Ongoing
From comparative anatomy to classification to adaptation and locomotion, SKELETONS has been designed with learning in mind! Currently displaying over 300 skeletons from all corners of the world, visitors have a unique opportunity to compare and contrast many rare species normally not seen in museum exhibits. In addition, The museum features a variety of North American specimens ranging from tiny mice and shrew skeletons to a 40-foot humpback whale.
Their newest exhibit features Sloths, Anteaters, Rodents, and Armadillos!
Tulsa Botanic Garden
(3900 Tulsa Botanic Dr, Tulsa) 918-289-0330; March 2-Nov. 21: Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Adults, $15; kids (3-15), $10; kids (under 3), free
Florigami in the Garden
March 2-Sept. 21, 2025
Florigami, an exhibition of monumental sculptures by Santa Fe artists Jennifer and Kevin Box, showcases 20 installations of museum-quality metal sculptures inspired by origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of folding paper. The larger-than-life sculptures of blooming flowers, birds, grazing deer, galloping ponies, and other flora and fauna themes will be exhibited throughout the five formal gardens.
