For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Travel Guide has been your connection to Oklahoma City's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Oklahoma City Attractions
Oklahoma City bed and breakfasts are conveniently located to make it easy to visit area attractions, dine in the city’s best restaurants and participate in the local nightlife. Your bed and breakfast innkeepers can give you more information about the following Oklahoma City attractions.
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, located in Oklahoma City’s Arts District hosts special exhibitions from around the world and is home to permanent collections of European and American art. The museum boasts the most extensive collection of Chihuly glass in the world; the bed and breakfast visitor can enter either of the two lobbies to see these grand sculptures. The collection includes hand blown glass, light fixtures, a shatterproof glass ceiling, sculptures and more. The museum is part of the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center where visitors can enjoy independent, international and classic films on state-of-the-art projection systems, a roof terrace providing a spectacular view of downtown Oklahoma City, a museum school displaying student art work, and a library resource center with a collection of 7500 non-circulating books and periodicals.
Civic Center Music Hall is the place to go for ballet, opera, traveling Broadway shows and concerts. Theater lovers can see the city’s top theater companies perform at the Stage Center for the Performing Arts. The building itself is a modernist architectural landmark worthy of a second glance. Other theater venues include the Lyric Theater, Jewel Box Theater, the Kirkpatrick Auditorium, the Poteet Theater and the Petree Recital Hall on the campus of the Oklahoma City University. Your bed and breakfast hosts can provide you with information about performances and tickets.
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum houses more than 28,000 pieces of Western and American Indian artwork and artifacts. Included in the collection are photographs, saddler and rodeo trophies. In June, the museum becomes an art gallery as the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale with the exhibiting artists sell their works as a fund raiser for the museum.
Science Museum Oklahoma is home to exhibits on space and aviation as well as the Kirkpatrick Planetarium and a dome theater. Relive the days of the NASA space missions and learn about AWAC technology. Within this museum, bed and breakfast visitors will also find the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame displaying awards, medals and honoring inductees such as Nadia Comaneci, Olga Korbut and Mary Lou Retton.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial was created to honor the victims, survivors, rescuers and the people whose lives were forever changed by the of the Oklahoma City bombing. Here you will also find the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a non-profit think tank dedicated to preventing terrorism.
The bed and breakfast tourist can take to the outdoors and visit the Myriad Botanical Gardens. Within this area, enjoy the Crystal Bridge, a tropical conservatory, or catch a Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park performance in the Water Stage amphitheater.
If you’re vacationing with the kids, take them to the Oklahoma City Zoological Park to visit all of its friendly furry, feathery, and scaly inhabitants. For a break from walking, jump on any of the amusement rides and enjoy the grounds from a different perspective. If this family-friendly attraction makes it on your list of things to see, you won’t want to forget your camera at your bed and breakfast—there are plenty of smiles to capture!
Confer with your bed and breakfast innkeepers about the must-see attractions if your time in Oklahoma City is limited. They have in-depth knowledge and valuable information on the city and can make appropriate suggestions based on your interests.
