Tulsa, Oklahoma

===Museums, archives and visual culture===
Tulsa is home to several museums. Located in the former villa of [[petroleum|oil]] pioneer [[Waite Phillips]] in Midtown Tulsa, the [[Philbrook Museum of Art]] is considered one of the top 50 [[fine art]] museums in the United States and is one of only five to offer a combination of a historic home, formal gardens, and an art collection.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ww3.visittulsa.com/general.asp?id=149 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060329204055/http://ww3.visittulsa.com/general.asp?id=149 | archive-date=March 29, 2006| title=Philbrook Museum of Art| publisher=Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce | access-date=April 15, 2006}}</ref> The museum's expansive collection includes work by a diverse group of artists including [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Andrew Wyeth]], [[Giovanni Bellini]], [[Domenico di Pace Beccafumi]], [[Willem de Kooning]], [[William Merritt Chase]], [[Auguste Rodin]] and [[Georgia O'Keeffe]]. Philbrook also maintains a satellite campus in downtown Tulsa.

In the [[Osage Hills]] of Northwest Tulsa, the [[Gilcrease Museum]] holds the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art and artifacts of the American West.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.travelok.com/atv/urban.asp | title=The All-Terrain Vacation | publisher=Travelok.com | access-date=April 12, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060410174845/http://www.travelok.com/atv/urban.asp | archive-date=April 10, 2006 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The museum includes the extensive collection of Native American oilman and famed art collector [[Thomas Gilcrease]] with numerous works by [[Frederic Remington]], [[Thomas Moran]], [[Albert Bierstadt]] and [[John James Audubon]] among the many displayed.

On the west bank of the Arkansas River in the suburb of [[Jenks, Oklahoma|Jenks]], the [[Oklahoma Aquarium]] is the state's only freestanding aquarium, containing over 200 exhibits, including a shark tank.<ref name="Oklahoma Aquarium">{{cite web |year=2007 |url=http://ww3.visittulsa.com/general.asp?id=183 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060329203745/http://ww3.visittulsa.com/general.asp?id=183 |archive-date=March 29, 2006|title=Oklahoma Aquarium |publisher=Tulsa Convention and Visitors Bureau |access-date=April 20, 2006}}</ref>

In addition, the city hosts a number of galleries, experimental art-spaces, smaller museums, and display spaces located throughout the city (clustered mostly in downtown, Brookside, and the Pearl District). Living Arts of Tulsa, in downtown Tulsa, is among the organizations dedicated to promoting and sustaining an active arts scene in the city.

====Cultural and historical archives====
Opened in April 2013, the [[Woody Guthrie Center]] in the Tulsa Arts District is Tulsa's newest museum and archive. In addition to interactive state-of-the-art museum displays, the [[Woody Guthrie]] Center also houses the Woody Guthrie Archives, containing thousands of Guthrie's personal items, sheet music, manuscripts, books, photos, periodicals, and other items associated with the iconic Oklahoma native.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://woodyguthriecenter.org/ | title=Woody Guthrie Center}}</ref> The archives of Guthrie protégé, singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]] will also be displayed in Tulsa when a new facility designed to showcase [[The Bob Dylan Archive]] is completed.

[[The Church Studio]] is a recording studio and tourist attraction with an archive of more than 5,000 pieces. Constructed in 1915, the church was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] due to musician [[Leon Russell]], who turned the old church into a recording studio and office to [[Shelter Records]] in 1972.

With remnants of the [[Holocaust]] and artifacts relevant to [[Judaism]] in Oklahoma, the [[Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art]] preserves the largest collection of [[Judaism|Judaica]] in the Southwestern and South-Central United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewishmuseum.net/ | title=Sherwin Miller Museum of Judaism | publisher=Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art | access-date=April 20, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226183123/http://www.jewishmuseum.net/ | archive-date=February 26, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Other museums, such as the Tulsa Historical Society, the [[Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium]], the [[Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame]], and the Tulsa Geosciences Center, document histories of the region, while the [[Greenwood Cultural Center]] preserves the culture of the city's African American heritage, housing a collection of artifacts and photography that document the history of the [[Greenwood District, Tulsa|Black Wall Street]] before the [[Tulsa Race Riot]] of 1921.