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Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, June 2025
The Wichita Art Museum. Because it was open. And free.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Pioneer Woman Museum, Ponca City, OK, June 2025
In 1926, oil tycoon Ernest Marland held a competition, inviting famous sculptors from across the country to submit their interpretation of the female pioneer spirit. A dozen accepted, and after a nat...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, Ponca City, OK, June 2025.
The Miller Brothers had it all, forming one of the largest ranches in the nation in Oklahoma Territory. Herds of cattle, diversified crops, sitting atop one of the greatest reservoirs of oil that wou...
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October 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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White Eagle Monument, Marland, OK, June 2025
Located atop a hill in far north Oklahoma is a monument of stones, reconstructed from an earlier cairn of rocks. Built by the Miller Brothers of the 101 Ranch (which owns the property), the monument ...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Cherokee Strip Museum, Perry, OK, June 2025
A small museum dedicated to the land run on the Cherokee Strip in northern Oklahoma.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum, Guthrie, OK, June 2025
Frozen in time at the turn of the century, a fully-stocked drug store from the days of when strychnine and cocaine and snake oil and heroin and leeches were state of the art.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Governor Seay Mansion, Kingfisher, OK, June 2025
The third territorial governor of Oklahoma, the grand 3-story mansion built in 1892 cost an extravagant $11,000 in its day. Located across the street from The Chisholm museum in Kingfisher.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The Chisholm, Kingfisher, OK, June 2025
Recently renovated and renamed "The Chisholm", a museum dedicated to the cattle trail running through the heart of the state. Located in what was once considered one of the most important t...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Botanica, Wichita, KS, May 2025
Closing out the month with a nice visit to a botanical garden in, of all places, Wichita. There's more to this little flyover city than first appearances.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Carrie Nation Home, Medicine Lodge, KS, May 2025
Located next to the faux-stockade museum is the home of Carrie Nation from 1889 to 1902. In 1899, she received a 'vision from god", headed off to the nearby town with her trusty ax, and started ...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Stockade Museum, Medicine Lodge, KS, May 2025
A frontier museum housed in a faux-stockade, in a town named after the site of a peace treaty that was signed in 1867. To be honest, kinda weaksauce compared to other museums in the region.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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B-29 Museum, Pratt, KS, May 2025
Here's a first: An aviation museum...without any aircraft! Located in a restore WWII parachute building in the obscure town of Pratt, this museum (only open 2 hours a week!) is dedicated to the B-29 ...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Brit Spaugh Zoo, Great Bend, KS, May 2025
To be honest I prefer the smaller little zoos to the big impressive ones. The Waco Zoo, for example, is much more fun to visit than the dallas Zoo. And this is definitely a little zoo in a fairly sm...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Keeper of the Plains - Wichita, KS, May 2025
Large statue overlooking the confluence of the Arkansas an the Little Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Cherokee Strip Museum, Alva, OK, May 2025
Located in northwest Oklahoma, this may be named about the Cherokee Strip, but this is really just the many, many county-seat museums that contains everything under the sun about the county. A very w...
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September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Twister Museum, Wakita, OK, May 2025
A museum dedicated to the movie, located in a tiny town that served as one of the key film locations in the film. Tiny little museum with various props and other memorabilia. Well, until the next to...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Simpson's Old Time Museum, Enid, OK, May 2025
This is a bit of a weird one - Sort of a "museum" and a massive abandoned warehouse rolled into one. And movie studio, too. With various collectibles and artifacts and stage props related ...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid, OK, May 2025
There seems to be three kinds of museums in Oklahoma: Museums about Native Americans, museums about the Chisholm Trail, and museums about the Cherokee Strip land rush. Sometimes all three at once. ...
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August 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Washington Irving Trail Museum, Ripley, OK, May 2025
This one is a bit of an oddity - a museum dedicated to the famous American author (Sleepy Hollow, Rip van Winkle) in deep rural Oklahoma? Sure, why not! In 1832, Washington Irving took a trip to the...
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August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum, Pawnee, OK, May 2025
Gordon William Lillie moved to the frontier in Kansas in the 1870's, where he fell in love with western culture and leaned into his "Pawnee Bill" persona. After decades as a wild west showm...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Botanic Gardens at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, May 2025
It's a garden. What else can I say?
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August 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Oklahoma Territorial Museum, Guthrie, OK, May 2025
Focusing on the era when Oklahoma was a territory, before it became the 46th state, with lots and lots of shade thrown at Oklahoma City as the two towns battled it out to become the capitol of the sta...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians, Anadarko, OK, May 2025
A small park containing several sculpted busts of famous Native American Indians throughout time - not just for Oklahoma, but the whole United States region. Surprisingly I recognized a solid 3/4th o...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Holy City of the Wichitas, Lawton, OK, May 2025
Sometimes the kitsch and the spectacle of the tourist attraction itself is the point. As is the case with the 'replica' Holy City located in a corner of the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. Started ...
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August 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Museum of Regional History, Texarkana, TX, April 2025
Going from one very well-done modern museum in Idabel, to this uninteresting, poorly arranged relic of the past in Texarkana. Not worth the trip.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM