Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, OK

Next stop was the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, OK.

It was rather difficult to get into the museum.  It was a bit like getting into Narnia through the wardrobe...

 

LOL!

The museum featured works by artists like Remington and Fraser.  This one was the plaster model for The End Of The Trail by James Earl Fraser, a sculpture displayed at a World's Fair.

There was a special children's building too.

They had a full size Chuck wagon and dinner bell.

 

 

Fake barbed wire...that looked so real!

Dress up like a cowboy!

Cowtown at dusk.  Here there was a life size town with all the different shops, stores, church and schoolhouse.

 

Nathaniel comes by his 'cowboy' naturally. :)

 

~Nathaniel~

At the cowboy museum I felt like a real cowboy. I hope I can have my own ranch when I grow up. One of the things that I liked about the museum was the rodeo arena.

Learning to ride rodeo.

 

In the rodeo area there were videos of the different rodeo competitions and the layout of the rodeo area was almost like a real one.  And there were cases with different belt buckles and trophies from the different rodeos.  I watched a rodeo competition on the screen.   

We dressed up like cowboys.  I am the furthest on the left.  The hat and boots are mine.  In the children’s section of the museum you could dress up like cowboys.  I chose cool chaps and a leather vest.  The costumes were in chests and you could choose what you wanted to wear. 

They had a life size wagon in the children’s area.  I wanted to sit up on the seat of the wagon, but I couldn’t find a way up.