Sights in Oklahoma
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National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum covers both art and history. Even if you come for just one, you're sure to be enthralled by the other. The excellent collection of Western painting and sculpture features many works by Charles M Russell and Frederic Remington while the historical galleries range from barbed wire to rodeos to cowboy hats.
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Symbolic Memorial
The outdoor Symbolic Memorial has 168 empty chair sculptures for each of the people killed in the attack (the 19 small ones are for the children who perished in the day care center). It's next to a reflecting pool in the former building's footprint. People tie simple yet heart-breaking memorials to the fence on Harvey St.
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Fort Sill Museum
Fort Sill Museumincludes barracks furnished as it was in the 1870s and the guardhouse where Geronimo was detained after he had celebrated a little too much in nearby Lawton. Many old weapons are displayed nearby. Ask for a map to Geronimo's grave, which is located a couple of miles away.
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Gilcrease Museum
Northwest of downtown, off Hwy 64, the superb Gilcrease Museum sits on the estate of a Native American who discovered oil on his allotment. The impressive collection of American Western, Native American, and Central and South American fine art and archaeology is surrounded by some fine formal gardens.
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Greenwood Cultural Center
Greenwood Cultural Center displays photos of the historic African American Greenwood District, which was the scene of America's worst race riot in 1921 when whites killed scores of African Americans and burned the neighborhood, leaving over 10,000 homeless.
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Stockyards City
You'll brush up against real cowboys in Stockyards City, southwest of downtown, either in the shops and restaurants that cater to them or at the Oklahoma National Stockyards, the world's largest stocker and feeder cattle market.
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Philbrook Museum of Art
South of town, another oil magnate's converted Italianate villa, also ringed by fabulous foliage, houses the eclectic Philbrook Museum of Art. The Native American works stand out; look for Navajo Woman on Horseback by Gerald Nailor.
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Museum of the Great Plains
The stockaded Red River Trading Post at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton is a faithful reproduction of those found in the area from the 1830s to 1840s. There's a prairie dog town where you can watch the sociable critters cavort.
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Will Rogers Memorial Museum
The hilltop Will Rogers Memorial Museum, 30 miles northeast of Tulsa off Route 66, is an entertaining tribute to a man good for quotes like this: 'My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.'
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Five Civilized Tribes Museum
TheFive Civilized Tribes Museumis inside an 1875 Union Indian Agency house. It recalls the cultures of the Native Americans forcibly moved here from America's southeast.
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J M Davis Arms and Historical Museum
More than 20,000 guns, knives, swords and other tools of mayhem are on display at J M Davis Arms and Historical Museum. The beer stein collection adds irony.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Some 600 bison and a herd of longhorns roam the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 15 miles northwest of Lawton along the north side of Fort Sill.
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Ataloa Lodge Museum
Bacone College's Ataloa Lodge Museum, east of town on US 62, is renowned for artifacts that include Hopi and Navajo kachina dolls and pottery.
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Boston Avenue United Methodist Church
TheBoston Avenue United Methodist Church, rising at the end of downtown is an exceptional example of the art-deco architecture.
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Crystal Bridge
Crystal Bridge, a seven-story conservatory, contains plants from every continent except Antarctica amid the 17-acre Myriad Botanical Gardens.
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
The story of America's worst incident of domestic terrorism is told at the engrossing Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
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Philcade Building
The Philcade Building, with its glorious T-shaped lobby is an exceptional example of the art-deco architecture.
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Prayer Tower
A 200ft UFO-like Prayer Tower is at the heart of the campus of financially troubled Oral Roberts University
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art displays good 20th-century American art.
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State Capitol
The State Capitol was built in 1917, but only got its dome in 2002.
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