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In 1987, the Oklahoma Legislature and governor approved a law (70 OK Stat §70-3309.1) that designated the Stovall Museum as the official Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. In the early 1990s, a group of concerned citizens in Norman, Oklahoma , began to lobby for a new museum facility to better care for the state’s collection of natural and ...
Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
This list of museums in Oklahoma encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Listings are distributed across all of Oklahoma's 77 counties. The following are approximate unofficial tallies of current listings by county. [a] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 7, 2025. [1]
A beautiful home in a historic Oklahoma neighborhood. In the late 1970s, a well-meaning homeowner in a small Oklahoma town tacked a plaque at his front door declaring his property’s unimportant ...
Standing Bear Park, Museum and Education Center, Ponca City Where: 601 Standing Bear Parkway, Ponca City. Hours: The museum is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Storrs; Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic; Dinosaur Place at Nature's Art Village, Montville; Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum, Rocky Hill; Earthplace, Westport; Northwest Park Nature Center, Windsor; Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, New Haven
Oklahoma City: Relocated from State Fair Park in 2008 in Oklahoma City 2: Montgomery Ward Building: March 13, 1980 (#80003287) March 8, 2005: 500 W. Main St. Oklahoma City: Delisted due to significant alterations. 3