Explore Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art occupies the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in the downtown arts district. It shows its own collection of European and American art alongside travelling exhibitions, and holds a large collection of glass by Dale Chihuly, including a 17-metre glass tower in the atrium. A cinema shows independent and classic films.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial honours the 168 people killed, the survivors and the rescuers of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 19 April 1995. On the building's site, the outdoor memorial has a reflecting pool between two gates and a field of empty chairs; the museum beside it documents the attack and its aftermath.

The Myriad Botanical Gardens cover six hectares in downtown Oklahoma City, with lawns, themed beds, a lake and a children's garden around the Crystal Bridge Conservatory, a glass tube that holds tropical plants from wet and dry climates. The outdoor grounds are open to everyone; the conservatory has its own admission.

The American Banjo Museum in the Bricktown district traces the history of the banjo, from its African roots and arrival in North America with enslaved people to jazz, bluegrass and today's music. Founded in Guthrie in 1988 and moved to Oklahoma City in 2009, it shows hundreds of instruments in a restored brick warehouse.

The Oklahoma State Capitol houses the state legislature and the governor's office. Built in neoclassical style between 1914 and 1917, it received its dome only in 2002; inside, murals and paintings tell the state's history. Its grounds are the only state capitol grounds in the United States with working oil wells.

The Oklahoma History Center, opened in 2005 opposite the Governor's Mansion near the State Capitol, is the state history museum run by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Its galleries cover the tribal nations, settlement, oil, aviation and commerce of Oklahoma, and the grounds hold oil-industry equipment and a research centre.

The First Americans Museum, opened in 2021 beside the Oklahoma River, presents the histories and cultures of the 39 tribal nations in Oklahoma today. Its galleries cover their removal to Indian Territory, everyday objects and contemporary life, with a gallery of loans from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, around a large earthwork mound.

Frontier City is a Western-themed amusement park on the northern edge of Oklahoma City, opened in 1958 and now operated by Six Flags. Its streets are laid out like an Old West town, with roller coasters such as the Silver Bullet and the wooden Wildcat, family rides, live shows and a water park area.