Museum of Tulsa History

06/02/2026

Today's Tulsa Chautauqua schedule:

Noon workshop: "Visions of Freedom: The American Experience through Poetry" with Rebecca Marks Jimerson

5:30 p.m. workshop: "Television in the 1950s" with Leslie Goddard

7:00 p.m. evening performance: William Clark by Dr. Doug A. Mishler

06/01/2026

It's Tulsa Chautauqua week!! Entertaining, insightful, and educational, you don't want to miss this year's theme: 250 YEARS – THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA

Nightly performances under a tent on the lawn, and daily workshops inside the museum. Free admission for everything all week.

See the full lineup here: https://www.tulsahistory.org/chautauqua/

05/12/2026

We are a Blue Star Museum! That means free admission (Memorial Day through Labor Day) for all active-duty and retired military, and their families.

04/24/2026

The museum will be closed on Saturday, May 2nd.

04/15/2026

Announcing the 40th Annual Tulsa Hall of Fame Inductees! Tulsa Hall of Fame members are visionaries who have spent much of their lives working for others. The inductees have made Tulsa a better community for all of us.

KEN BUSBY – Non-profit leader and current CEO of the Route 66 Alliance.

REUBEN GANT – Football star and community servant. Helped create John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park.

ELLIOT NELSON – Transformed the Downtown Tulsa dining landscape with McNellie’s Group.

RODGER & JUDY RANDLE – He’s a former mayor and senator; she promotes reading and literacy.

GAILARD SARTAIN – Late artist and star of TV and film, including Hee Haw and Mississippi Burning.

We will be highlighting each inductee in the coming months, ahead of the October Induction Ceremony, stay tuned!

For more information: https://www.tulsahistory.org/HOF

04/09/2026

Don't miss Spring Fest this Friday and Saturday hosted by our neighbors Tulsa Garden Center at Woodward Park. They have expanded and added special surprises this year - it already looks amazing next door!!

PLUS museum admission will be half-price both days. Shop for plants and then learn about Tulsa history!

Your favorite garden market, SPRINGFEST, is right around the corner!! In its 71st year, SpringFest continues to kick off the garden market season with the best vendors, new surprises, perfect location, and heart!

📆 April 10th & 11th
⏰ 9am-3pm
🪴 Over 70 vendors
🆓 Free to the public
🚌 Shuttle from All Souls Unitarian parking lot (new!)
🥘 Grub Garden (new!)
🎶 Live music both afternoons at 1pm (new!)
📚 Friday story time at 10:30am (new!)
🌳 Expansion into the Arboretum (new!)
🚶‍♀️ Accessible walkways in the Event Lawn (new!)
👕 New Garden Tee drop (🐝!)

04/08/2026

Have you seen the current exhibit "Home & Hearth?"

Before the rapid growth brought by the oil boom, Tulsa was a quiet frontier town. A broad variety of skills were needed to maintain the home— and make life more pleasant. Come explore the tools used for everything from quilting to cooking and take a look back at a time before electric appliances and department stores.

04/06/2026

We have advanced to the voting round of TulsaPeople Magazine's A-List in the museum category! If you’ve enjoyed our exhibits, programs, or membership perks, help us out by voting for MOTH once daily now through April 12th.

Vote here: https://www.tulsapeople.com/a-list/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTXdDOThHQzdQSjlaWWdkdnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6XZOlQZBgt3nHC-Ag5iJYc9pG52a9crFwgN6SfM2Gy0pqSAV_3phh_QjSANQ_aem_KxV7Pzq4BRqqthZKfsjlVQ #/gallery?group=536701

04/04/2026

11th & Hudson looking east, 1961.

02/04/2026

Photos from the Wonder Bread factory on Route 66 at 11th and Sheridan. c. 1958

The Continental Baking Company (owner of the Tulsa factory) was the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, and one of the first bakeries to introduce fortified bread. In the 1950s, Continental started an advertising campaign for it's vitamin and mineral enriched bread: "Wonder Bread builds strong bodies 8 ways. Look for the red, yellow and blue balloons printed on the wrapper."