Oklahoma History Center - Special Exhibits

Special Exhibits

Rock & Roll Exhibit - The Oklahoma History Center hosts "Another Hot Oklahoma Night: A Rock & Roll Exhibit", a title that comes from the lyrics of a song by Oklahoma-born musician Michael Been. This exhibit explores the rock and roll artists, radio stations, personalities, venues, and fans that have called Oklahoma home. Beyond the facts of each story, the exhibit shows how growing up in Oklahoma affected the music. These are displayed in an innovative style to encourage visitor participation and to ensure that the visitor will take away a new perspective on the history of rock and roll in Oklahoma. The exhibit is located in the E. L. & Thelma Gaylord Gallery on the extreme north end of the first floor. Additional exhibit components are located in the Inasmuch Foundation, Noble Foundation, and Kerr-McGee Galleries.

Tierra De Mi Familia - On November 22, 2008, the Oklahoma History Center opened a museum exhibit sharing the Latino experience in Oklahoma. The interactive exhibit uses interviews, artifacts, documents, photographs, film, and music to explore both the impact of Latinos on the state of Oklahoma and the impact of the state of Oklahoma on the lives of Latinos. The exhibit integrates two story lines; the historical immigration of Latinos to Oklahoma, from territorial days to present, and the cultural folkways that Oklahoma’s Latino people have brought with them from Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America.

Oklahoma is home to cultures from all over the world, a unique blend of people that call Oklahoma their home. This exhibit provides a place to tell these immigration stories, a place to share and begin to understand and learn about the diversity of the state of Oklahoma. It is located in the Inasmuch Foundation Gallery on the south end of the first floor.

Oklahoma's Apollo 11 Moon Rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock- Rose Niang-Casey, a graduate student at the University of Phoenix, and a participant in the “Moon Rock Project”, was assigned the task of hunting down the Oklahoma Apollo 11 Moon rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock; two moon rocks the Nixon Administration gifted to the people of Oklahoma. In both cases she discerned these moon rocks were properly on display at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She advised this is an exception to the rule, as most of these unique gifts that were given to the states and nations of the world have been poorly handled over the years.