 – After more than five years for the demolition of its original facility and construction of a new museum, Gilcrease is scheduled to open to the public…){kind=link}
TULSA, OK (PNAN) – After more than five years for the demolition of its original facility and construction of a new museum, Gilcrease is scheduled to open to the public in March 2027, welcoming visitors into a reimagined museum experience that brings together one of the most significant collections of art, history and culture in the Americas.
More than 75 years after Thomas Gilcrease, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, established a museum in Tulsa to tell the stories of the Americas, the reopening further integrates the museum, the Helmerich Center for American Research, the historic Thomas Gilcrease House and its surrounding natural landscape as a single destination for research, learning and public engagement.
Guided by its new brand promise, UNPARALLELED – Bringing art, history and people together to understand the diverse heritage of the Americas, the new Gilcrease will invite visitors to discover one of the nation’s most interdisciplinary collections, with more than 300,000 items spanning 12,000 years of history across the Western Hemisphere.
The Gilcrease Collection encompasses Anglo-American art and history, including colonial portraiture and art of the American West; Indigenous art and history, from ancestral cultural materials to contemporary Native art; and colonial Latin American materials, represented across paintings and sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, manuscripts and archives, rare books and material culture.
Nestled within Tulsa’s scenic Osage Hills, the museum features 14 permanent collection galleries designed for self-guided exploration, presenting interconnected stories through multiple cultural lenses, including Indigenous nations, the American West, Latin America and the many communities whose histories continue to shape our understanding of the Americas. Beyond the galleries, visitors can explore 460 acres of natural landscape connected by 14 miles of trails for hiking and biking.