Museum on Main Street (MoMS) is a cultural project that serves rural America. OHC partners with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) to bring national touring exhibits to small Oklahoma communities. 

View the Story

OETA featured the Oklahoma debut of the MoMS exhibit Journey Stories on it's cultural program, Gallery. To view the video, click the link and choose episode #1001: Gallery

Host Community Applications

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

Key Ingredients: America by Food will tour six Oklahoma communities, October 2011 through August 2012. The exhibit examines the history and culture of food—from ceremonies and etiquette to technology and the evolution of the American kitchen. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2009. Click here for the application and guidelines.

Current Exhibit — Journey Stories

Journey Stories uses images, audio, and artifacts to explore an ideal that is central to the American identity—the freedom to move. The exhibit 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
106 W. 6th St.
Information: 918/756-2324
June 27, 2009 – August 7, 2009

Newkirk

Newkirk Public Library
116 N. Maple
Information: 580/362-3934
August 15, 2009 – September 25, 2009

Sand Springs

Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum
9 E. Broadway
Information: 918/246-2509
October 3, 2009 – November 13, 2009

Miami

Miami Public Library
200 N. Main
Information: 918/541-2292
November 21, 2009 – December 30, 2009

Durant

Three Valley Museum
401 W. Main
Information: 580/920-1907
January 9, 2010 – February 19, 2010

Chandler

Museum of Pioneer History
719 Manvel Ave.
Information: 405/258-2425
February 27, 2010 – April 11, 2010

Journey Stories Sponsors:

Chesapeake Energy
Communities Foundation of Oklahoma
Sarkeys Foundation
We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and The Hearst Foundation.