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Trail Heritage
Center, Duncan, Oklahoma
The Chisholm Trail Heritage Center was established in 1998 to commemorate and celebrate the great history and heritage of the old Chisholm Trail and the other Great Cattle Trails of the late 19th century. The Center includes the largest bronze sculpture in Oklahoma, a monumental statue of a cattle drive, and an adjacent museum, visitor center and gift shop. Inside the museum, displays and galleries put you on the old Trail. From the economic forces stimulating the cattle industry after the Civil War, to the entrepreneurs and cattle barons who made it happen, and on to the cowboys, the Native Americans, the cavalry, the cattle, and the terrain, the Heritage Center tells the complete story of the famous Trail. The Heritage Center features several exhibits, including a cattle-driving exhibit, which tells the story of the great cattle drives of old, gives information on the forces that led to the great cattle drives, the cattle barons, ranch owners, and entrepreneurs who made them happen; the cowboys, Indians, and Cavalry; the economics of trail drives; why the cattle drives ended; and the Trails legacy today. The Chisholm Trail Heritage Center has won many awards for being an outstanding tourist attraction and holds many events related to the cattle-driving era.
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is dedicated to the preservation of western heritage through an events schedule that entertains and educates both children and adults. From glitzy galas like the Western Heritage Awards and Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale, to the Chuck Wagon Gathering and National Children's Cowboy Festival, the museum attracts both a local and national audience. The Mission of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is to preserve and interpret the heritage of the American West for the enrichment of the public. Opened in 1965, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum was originally conceived as a dream of Chester A. Reynolds, a Kansas City businessman, as a tribute to the men and women who helped establish the West as an integral part of America's cultural heritage. Since 1994, the Museum has experienced its own westward expansion, increasing in size from 80,000 square feet to more than 200,000 square feet. Visitors view art from Prix de West Award winners, the finest contemporary artists in the nation, as well as significant works by master artists such as Charles Russell, Frederic Remington, and Albert Bierstadt. Of the numerous heroic-sized works on display, visitors are most awed by James Earle Fraser's famous 18-foot sculpture, End of the Trail, Colorado sculptor, Gerald Balciar's 16,000-pound white marble cougar, aptly named Canyon Princess, and Windows to the West, five breathtaking Western landscapes by Albuquerque artist, Wilson Hurley. The sprawling complex also contains Prosperity Junction, a 14,000 square foot turn-of-the-century Western town, and major exhibition galleries which include the American Cowboy Gallery, the American Rodeo Gallery, the Joe Grandee Museum of the Frontier West Gallery, Weitzenhoffer Gallery of Fine American Firearms, the Western Performers Gallery, Native American Gallery, and the Silberman Gallery of Native Fine Art. Also on site is a unique museum store, fine restaurant, dining on Persimmon Hill, Children’s Cowboy Corral, and the Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center. Outside, the stunning landscape boasts both botanical and natural gardens.
From Cattle barons to cowboys, from Special Texas Rangers to rustlers, from boots to branding irons, you'll find it all at the Cattle Raisers Museum - where the real West begins. This entertaining, interactive museum tells the story of the cattle and ranching industry in Texas and the Southwest. Experience hands-on exhibits, talking mannequins, authentic artifacts and an exciting theatre presentation. All to make the legends and lore come alive. In addition to the exhibits, the Cattle Raisers Museum also hosts many events, runs a gift shop, leases a rental space for receptions, dinners or meetings and publishes a semi-annual newsletter.
Old Cowtown Museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 - 1880. The museum is accredited open-air living history site with over 40 restored buildings on 17.3 acres. Located in the heart of Wichita, Kansas and part of the Museums on the River district, Old Cowtown Museum covers three distinct time periods through its exhibits. The Old Town Area presents the settlement era of early Wichita and includes the Munger House, a story and a half log structure that is listed on the National Historic Register of Historic Places. The townscape, which contains the bulk of the buildings in the museum, represents Wichita around 1872. It includes working craft sites such as a Blacksmith Shop, Carpentry Shop, and The Wichita City Eagle and print shop. It also includes Fritz Snitzler's Saloon, a reconstructed drug store, and one of the few restored wooden grain elevators. The town site also includes a livery stable with two Longhorn cattle, as well as a Drovers camp. The most recent addition is the 1880 DeVore Farm. This working farm demonstrates an established farm in the county and has Berkshire Hogs, Light Brahma Chickens, Red Durham Short-horned Milking cows and Tim and Barney, the black Percheron horses that are used to perform the farming operations. The grounds are staffed daily by up to twelve time-period appropriately costumed interpreters who demonstrate daily life in the late 19th Century. The museum holds over 10,000 objects that pertain to the life and history of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas. The primary purpose of the collection is to furnish the historic buildings and demonstrate daily life. The majority of the collection is on display with a small collection of archival holdings that are used in research by the staff and visiting scholars. The Old Cowtown Museum is a place where you can pump the well, ring the dinner bell, walk the wooden boardwalks, see how “modern” farmers worked in there time and see a developing town looked from settlement to the days of cowboys and cattle drives. The museum is also home to many old-fashioned events.
American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
In December 2001, the American Folk Art Museum opened its new home located in the heart of Manhattan. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and Associated designed the building, for which they were awarded the masterworks award for best new building in New York City for 2001 by they municipal art society. The American Folk Art Museum is one of the leading institutions dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of folk art. The museum is 30,000 square feet and is the home to 18th and 19th century paintings, quilts and sculptures to the dynamic work of contemporary self-taught artists, the museums extraordinary collection reveals a spectrum of American expression. The forty food wide façade of the museum is designed to make a strong buy quiet statement of independence. It is sculptural in form, recalling and abstracted open hand. Generally solid, it is folded slightly inward creating a faceted plane. Metal panels of tombasil, a form of white bronze, clad the building. Spaces between each panel reveal the darkened wall of the weather barrier behind. The eight-level building devotes the four upper floors to gallery space for permanent and temporary exhibitions. You enter the building at a right angle behind the hanging façade panels. The mezzanine level houses a small coffee bar and looks back over the main hallway with a dramatic view of a two-story atrium. The museum store is at the entrance level, with access during non-museum hours via a separate street entrance. A single elevator and the primary stairwells are placed on the side allowing a maximum of open space for the galleries. The dimly lit main stair, which runs from bottom to top in the northwest corner of the building is framed by a high panel of heavy, wavy green cast-resin fiberglass. The architects intended the visitor to experience the museum as an architectural journey, encouraging often surprising encounters with both new and familiar objects by using multiple and sometimes redundant paths of circulation. Art is integrated in a series of niches throughout the building. Low ceiling spaces alternate with longer balcony areas overlooking the central atrium. A grand concrete staircase, placed in the middle of the space, connects the third and fourth floors. Dominating the space is a giant weathervane, in the form of a Native American chief, casting stark shadows on the concrete wall. Hidden behind a wall a narrow wooden staircase links the fourth and fifth floors. One level below ground contains a small auditorium and classroom facilities, while the lowest level houses museum offices and a library archive.
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