oklahoma city museum of art

Especially enjoyed the blown glass exhibit. There was also a very interesting special exhibit on art forgeries.

The museum was hosting an excellent, interesting show about forgers and fakers in the art world. The museum is relatively small, but very varied in its displays of European and American artists. My partner and I had a lovely couple hours in this OKC museum.

The OKCMOA isn't the largest of art museums, but it has a lovely permanent collection in a beautiful space, and an excellent rotation of traveling exhibits. The permanent Chihuly collection is particularly nice and well-displayed. Depending on the traveling exhibit, it can take 2-3 hours or more to have a leisurely view of the museum. Becoming a member of the museum is inexpensive (for students, only $20), and comes with some great perks. The museum café is has good food, but it's relatively expensive and there are many restaurant options nearby.

Always dependable for an excellent meal. Everything is good. This time of year great for soups. Kitchen always spot on. Host staff great. Servers can be a little immature lately. Problem should get worked out.

we love art museums and this one was OK. we were going no matter what but were pleasantly surprised when we found that the brochure we picked up on our way there had a "buy one get one" on admissions (the Oklahoma welcome center/rest area and most local hotels will have these brochures). it was worth $12.00 for 2 adults. the glass mentioned in previous reviews is interesting, some beautiful, all very imaginative. however the rest of the museum lacks depth and variety. the volunteers at the museum are very polite and informative. We saw some items we had never experienced and were pleased with the visit.

We visited this wonderful Art Museum to see Roman artifacts and along the way were entranced by something we didn't expect. The Stunning art of Dale Chihuly. His blown glass compositions are amazing and inspiring! Dale's work is on display continually and alone is worth the trip. You have to see this in person to grasp the magnitude and at the same time the detail of these great pieces. What a Treasure for our state!

Go for the glass, as it it truly wonderful, but be sure to see the traveling exhibit because they choose those carefully and perhaps take in a film as well. Spend the better part of the day and try the restaurant on site as well. The only down side to the visit might be the docents. Ask for Richard Roulliard as he knows his stuff and has a delightful sense of humor.

If you have any interest in art museums, this is a lovely collection that is housed in a wonderful building. For a visitor, one of the best things is that the museum can be fairly comprehensively covered in a couple of hours.The Chihuly glass collection alone is worth the stop, but the galleries include a little bit of everything, such as early European paintings, American contemporary, furniture, antique silver to modern sculptures. The temporary exhibits are almost always fascinating. If you need a lunch or dinner break, the Museum Cafe is a great little restaurant, with a diverse menu and a first class atmosphere and waitstaff (and pretty much prices to match).Full disclosure: I have a membership to this museum and have volunteered there as a docent between 2004 and 2013. I have no business relationship with the museum or cafe, but I have gotten to know the staff over time and they really are terrific. I travel a lot and I've been in a lot of museums; in the smaller museum category, this one definitely holds its own. My recommendation is a personal one and wholehearted and does not benefit me in any way.

I went to the exhibit with some friends of mine and we enjoyed it very much. Loved the film about him was an added bonus. We will cherish the time we spent there and remember the experience as a whole and tell others about it.

It has some wonderful exhibits and they have events from time to time. If you like glass art, this is definitely a place you need to visit and recommend to others.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art is known for the Dale Chihuly glass art, but a new exhibition: “Intent to Deceive” going on now until May 10, 2015. This exhibition used 5 people who faked and had forgery famous artists’ printings as examples to teach you how to detect fake from original work of art. The exhibition is also tell you in detail of those 5 people’s personal histories. I found the exhibition is very interesting. Regardless for what reasons that they did forgeries, hardship of life to support family, luxury life style to need money or just for the admiration to donate the fakes, they cross the line to deceive people. They wasted their talents and the dark clouds of forgeries have covered 40% of Art World.

We really enjoyed the museum and will take our family there sometime this summer, if we can get everyone together.

We visited the Oklahoma City Museum of Art primarily to see the Chihuly glass on display. The collection was extensive, and we were not disappointed.We would have been satisfied with the value we received by seeing just the Chihuly exhibit, but the other works on display were very interesting as well.The OKC Museum of Art has a variety of art on display, and it provides an excellent value for its guests.

Oklahoma city is not a particularly interesting city and certainly not a go to destination. However if you find yourself here or nearby this Museum is about the best thing your going to find in town.

This museum lacks a point of view or an aesthetic unless you like that banal glass sculpture Dale Chilhuly from Washington state. The folks of Oklahoma city opened their new building with a show of Chilhuly's glass works. It was so popular that more than 500 people donated to buy the entire show for the museum. Now this work takes up half of one of the 3 floors and is on permanent display. On my visit a floor and a half were closed for installation. No museum should operate like this. The American paintings do include a small painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, but most of the other artists are much less famous: Dorothy Varian, Isabel Bishop, Moses Soyer, Ernest Blumenschein. Often the works are minor when the artists are major. There was no printed map or guide available; no significant wall texts. I recommend driving to Tulsa to go to the Gilcrease Museum instead.