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Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
Oklahoma City, OK
Hundreds of ornate banjos trace the instrument from minstrel-era history through jazz, bluegrass and modern performance. Elaborately decorated instruments and a highly specific collecting focus make the museum an unusually strong niche stop.
Oklahoma City, OK
A museum devoted to pigeons documents racing, military messenger birds, fancy breeds and the long relationship between humans and domesticated pigeons. It is one of the state's most narrowly focused specialty museums.
Claremore, OK
The museum holds one of the world's largest privately assembled firearms collections alongside swords, outlaw artifacts, musical instruments and assorted curiosities. Its sheer density and eccentric breadth make it more cabinet collection than conventional weapons museum.
Shawnee, OK
This university museum contains an unexpectedly strong collection of Egyptian antiquities, including a mummy, alongside art and archaeological material from around the world. The Egyptian galleries give it a much stranger profile than a typical regional art museum.
Oklahoma City, OK
Hundreds of real animal skeletons fill a museum devoted almost entirely to comparative anatomy. The dense displays of skulls, articulated skeletons and unusual species make it one of Oklahoma's clearest cabinet-of-curiosities style museums.
Goodwell, OK
The museum focuses on the Oklahoma Panhandle, once widely called No Man's Land, with archaeology, fossils, agricultural material and regional artifacts. Its location near the center of the Panhandle gives context to one of the state's strangest geographic histories.
Oklahoma City, OK
Switchboards, telephones, signs and telecommunications equipment document the rapidly changing technology behind everyday conversation. The specialized collection turns obsolete infrastructure into a surprisingly visual museum.
Pauls Valley, OK
Thousands of action figures, toys and comic-related objects fill a museum built around the visual history of modern character merchandising. Displays range from superhero collections to an enormous staged action-figure diorama.
