Tour Schedule

OHC will participate in the nationwide Museum on Main Street project and will present Journey Stories, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, in six communities across the state beginning in June 2009.

About the Exhibit

Journey Stories uses images, audio, and artifacts to explore an ideal that is central to the American identity—the freedom to move. The exhibit goes beyond transportation history and technology. It includes individual journey stories and demonstrates the roles of travel and movement in building a diverse, American society. Themes such as immigration, migration, innovation, and freedom illustrate American mobility and how it has evolved as an assertion of individual freedom.

Tour Schedule

Okmulgee

Creek Council House Museum
June 27, 2009 – August 7, 2009

Newkirk

Newkirk Public Library
August 15, 2009 – September 25, 2009

Sand Springs

Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum
October 3, 2009 – November 13, 2009

Miami

Miami Public Library
November 21, 2009 – December 30, 2009

Durant

Three Valley Museum
January 9, 2010 – February 19, 2010

Chandler

Museum of Pioneer History
February 27, 2010 – April 2, 2010

About Museum on Main Street

Museum on Main Street is a one-of-a-kind, cultural project that serves residents of rural America. It is a partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and individual state humanities councils nationwide.

Hosting a Smithsonian exhibit will be a boon to communities, both culturally and economically. OHC will provide host communities with access to scholarly consultations, capacity-building workshops, and event-planning support that will make lasting improvements to advance their work. The program is available to nonprofit organizations.