Science Museum Oklahoma

Science Museum Oklahoma, located in Oklahoma City, is basically a children's "interactive" museum which has some grown-up museum exhibits thrown in. For example, one of the main exhibit areas features a cartoonish dinosaur skeleton surrounded by Apollo rocket engines.

I visited the first time in the summer of 2008. Their Destination Space gallery seemed to be undergoing expansion, or perhaps they were creating a second space-themed gallery; there was a room, clearly undergoing construction, in which their V-2 replica rested.

The existing Destination Space gallery, in addition to hosting artifacts of interest to adults, had numerous "interactive" exhibits; by "interactive," I mean "capable of producing large amounts of noise when operated by young children." With summer vacation in full swing, the gallery was visited by several day care groups, which both added "interactivity" to the gallery and put limits on the number and type of photographs I was able to take in that gallery. I visited again in 2016, but it seemed that spring break may have been underway, or perhaps the museum's target demographic is the younger crowd.

The museum (and its website) was known as the Omniplex while I planned my first visit (the Museum's history page notes that their board of directors adopted the name "Science Museum Oklahoma" on November 7, 2007, and it presumably took a while to change the Website and the sign out front), so you'll find remnants of that name in various URLs on this Website; (some signs in the museum and a sign on the museum's exterior still reflected the "Omniplex" name during my first visit, as well). The museum was apparently also known as the "Kirkpatrick Air and Space Museum" at some point in its past.

Google Maps link.

As of now, I have not yet sorted through all of my pictures from Science Museum Oklahoma, but some other page references this location. Thus, this is a "place holder" version right now, with only the pictures actually referenced. Come back some time later to see if I've finished up, or drop me an email to request me to prioritize the rest of these pictures.