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.
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.
- 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.
Close to Home: Vietnam’s Effect on Edmond
July 2025-Jan. 12, 2026
America’s role in the Vietnam War reached its peak in 1965 and lasted until 1973. During that time, over 3 million Americans were deployed. This exhibit, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the war’s start, tells the story of five soldiers and a USO volunteer. Charles DeBellevue, Larry Hillman, Richard Prawdzienski, Ray McCormick and Eddie & Connie Beesely share their personal accounts from the Vietnam War and how their lives were affected afterwards.
This Ain’t Our First Rodeo: The History of the Edmond Round Up Club
June 2-Nov. 29, 2025
The exhibit features photographs, artifacts and loaned items that range from saddles and belt buckles to cowboy hats and rodeo items owned by Carl Benne. In addition, photos and paintings by Edmond artist, Jennifer Cocoma Hustis, are on display, inspired by her own experiences with the Edmond Junior Rodeo at the Carl Benne Arena.
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.
Between What Was and What Will Be: Art from the Unexpected
Oct. 31-March 2, 2026
Between What Was and What Will Be: Art from the Unexpected showcases the work of seven First American artists who breathe new life into found and repurposed materials. From natural elements to everyday objects, these artworks explore transformation, memory and connection to place.
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.
Federal Judicial Learning Center & Museum
(215 Dean A. McGee Ave) Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission is free.
The Rule of Law Keeps Us Free
Learn about the history of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma – its historical and significant cases and the legacy and importance of the federal judicial system.
Firehouse Art Center
(444 S Flood Ave, Norman) 405-329-4523; Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Exploring Life and Death in the Andes: Photography of Peruska Chambi
Sept. 17-Nov. 2, 2025
This striking body of work captures the cultural traditions of Día de Difuntos in the Andes, offering the community an intimate look into photography that documents aspects of life and death few visitors to the region ever experience. Born in Cusco, Peru, in 1958, Chambi is a photographer, cultural manager, researcher, and educator whose career spans more than four decades.
Holiday Gift Gallery
Nov. 11-Dec. 22, 2025
Showcases over 60 Oklahoma artists working in various media, including painting, illustration, ceramics, jewelry, wood, fiber and more.
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
All My Relations
Oct. 11, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026
All My Relations: Recent Acquisitions at First Americans Museum is a selection of works from the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate familial ties.
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.
Rivers & Roads: Steven Yazzie in Action
Sept. 9, 2025-March 15, 2026
Rivers & Roads: Steven Yazzie in Action brings together selections from two ongoing series that explore movement, place, and our evolving relationship with the environment. Accompanied by video documentation of these immersive processes, the series reveals how movement, environment and lived experience fundamentally shape artistic expression.
Nicolai Fechin: An Artistic Journey
Oct. 3,2025-April 5, 2026
Nicolai Fechin: An Artistic Journey explores the life and work of a Russian artist best known for his colorful portraits of New Mexico. His work, however, encompassed a much broader range of subjects and cultures encountered through a lifetime of travel and reflection.
On the Edge: The Abstract World of Frederick Hammersley
May 8-Sept. 6, 2026
On the Edge: The Abstract World of Frederick Hammersley traces the artist’s pursuit of abstraction across spontaneous compositions, geometric designs, and works that sought to break from tradition. Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) is recognized as a key figure in the mid-century Hard-edge movement—a style defined by precise geometric compositions and a strong focus on the relationship between color and form.
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.
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.
More info coming soon.
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.
In Contrast: Nature Interpreted
Nov. 6, 2025-Jan. 6, 2026
Features works by artists Deke Roberts and Jim Weaver.
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
The Cowboy: An Immersive Journey
December 2025
This one-of-a-kind experience combines videos, projections, art, sound, music and movies to tell the story of the cowboy in the American West.
Route 66: From Trails to Truck Stops
Feb. 6-May, 2026
The story of the American West is, at its heart, a story about movement. Folks moving across a wide, wild stretch of land—different people, cultures, and communities all heading west. Over time, the push westward became less about wandering and more about building—building ways to get people and goods from here to there. The new exhibition will tell that story.
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.
American Surrealism
Aug. 29, 2025-March 22, 2026
Though it began in France as a literary movement in 1924, Surrealism quickly evolved into an international and interdisciplinary movement that continues to influence artists today. This installation explores the lineage and relocation of European Surrealism to the United States through the Freudian notion of the uncanny. It features European Surrealists, American artists influenced by the movement, and artists with a Surrealist sensibility.
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.
The Legacy of the Washington Color School
Nov. 22, 2025-April 12, 2026
On view in conjunction with Paul Reed: A Retrospective, this installation expands the legacy of the Washington Color School to include artists historically overlooked in its narrative, offering a more comprehensive history of abstract art in Washington, DC. Artists such as Sam Gilliam, Alma Thomas, Anne Truitt, and Kenneth Victor Young were contemporaries of the Washington Color School with similar styles and approaches to abstraction. Often referred to as the second generation, these artists actively contributed to the art landscape of Washington, DC, alongside the first-generation Washington Color School artists.
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.
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.
ArtNow 2025: Materials and Boundaries
Sept. 20, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026
This exhibition is an exploration of Oklahoma’s identity, showcasing work created by contemporary artists who utilize the themes of place and self with experimental materials and innovative practices. Twenty-six artists explore identity, place and experimentation through boundary-pushing practices and material innovation, offering a fresh and nuanced vision of contemporary Oklahoma.
Jakian Parks: The Black Land
Nov. 6, 2025-June 1, 2026
The exhibition highlights the land as a complex and enduring source of struggle and identity within the African American experience. For Black Americans, farmland evokes a lineage of forced labor, sharecropping and ongoing challenges around ownership and sovereignty. Yet The Black Land also affirms the expertise and insight that have emerged from this proximity. Through Jakian Parks’ photography, the exhibition envisions a layered structure, connecting the historical phases from Black captivity through to contemporary Black equestrianism.
Anthony McCall: Solid Light
March 13–July 27, 2026
This North American premiere marks a historic moment in Oklahoma’s cultural landscape, bringing McCall’s immersive light sculptures — described as “cinema without film” — to the heartland for the very first time. A pioneer of experimental film and installation, McCall transforms light into living architecture. Visitors will walk through sculptural beams made of mist and projected light in a rare, sensory experience decades in the making. The exhibition also includes film, photography and archive material documenting McCall’s extraordinary practice.
Chad Mount: Frequency and Perspective
June 25-Nov. 2, 2026
In this installation, Mount employs projection mapping, laser light, generative visuals, and sound to create spaces that respond to presence and perception. While the work integrates both analog and digital tools, its origins lie in lived experience, quiet moments of observation, meditation, and time in nature.
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.
Picture Yourself Presents: Clarence LeBlanc, An Oklahoma Rodeo Legend
Feb. 18, 2025-Jan. 31, 2026
Learn about Oklahoma rodeo legend Clarence LeBlanc through the interactive experience located in the Picture Yourself Gallery and the virtual exhibit. This exhibit was a collaborative effort with the Oklahoma Cowboys and significant contributions from Clarence LeBlanc and his family, and Oklahoma artist LaQuincey Reed.
Oklahoma Leaders in Public Service
April 29, 2025-April 25, 2026
Learn about 18 inspiring Oklahomans who stepped up to serve, lift voices, build bridges, and shape a better tomorrow for our great state and beyond.
(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.
Collect. Preserve. Share. 20 Years at the Oklahoma History Center
Open Nov. 15, 2025
The exhibition shows how the opening of the Oklahoma History Center in 2005 transformed the Oklahoma Historical Society’s ability to collect, preserve and share the state’s history.
Beyond the Sash: Reflections on Oklahoma Pageants
Open Aug. 30, 2025
This exhibit explores the depth and variety of the state’s pageants and cultural representation. Through both historic and contemporary examples, the exhibit examines how these events reflect tradition, identity, and change.
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.
Oklahoma Sports Heroes
Opened Dec. 21, 2024
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.
Treefest
Nov. 13-Dec. 31, 2025
Fully decorated trees created by Tribal Nations from across Oklahoma showcase handmade ornaments and art that reflect each tribe’s unique culture and traditions.
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
Formed in Stone
Nov. 1, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026
Formed in Stone: The Natural Beauty of Fossils invites visitors to a breathtaking encounter in the deepest reaches of time. Look closely at original fossil specimens pulled from our invertebrate fossil collection, then gaze up at high-resolution photographs magnified up to 60 times, revealing intricate textures, fractal geometry and delicate ornamentation that remained hidden in stone for millions of years. Each image, a snapshot frozen in time, unveils the natural beauty of ancient life and transforms it into a modern visual experience.
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.
Animation Academy
Oct. 3, 2025-Jan. 31, 2026
This engaging exhibition explores the world of animation, from hand-drawn classics to CGI marvels. Guests will encounter familiar characters spanning generations while discovering the artistic and technical processes that bring them to life. Hands-on activities throughout the gallery allow visitors to try their hand at the craft of animation.
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!
