Events

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is proud to join communities across the country in celebrating America’s 250th birthday. This historic milestone marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, an event being called the nation’s Semiquincentennial. From now through July, the museum will commemorate this […]

Registration is now open for the Bartlesville Area History Museum’s “America at 250” educational camps for kids. Little wranglers age 5-10 (K-5th grades) are invited to attend camps being held June 23-25th, and July 7-9th , from 1:00-3:00 daily. Campers will learn about what it was like to be a kid in 1776, celebrating the […]

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce In honor of America’s 250th birthday, the Bartlesville Area History Museum is bringing back one of the town’s most delightfully unusual traditions — a mustache and beard contest inspired by the legendary whiskers of town founder Jacob Bartles. On July 4th at Freedom Fest, locals and […]

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our July “Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker, Department Head of History, at OSU, Richard Boles. Boles specializes in early American and United States history, particularly African American and Native American history from the colonial era to the middle of the nineteenth century, and […]

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our August “Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker Jake Tiger, a prominent historian and the Band Chief of the Thomas Palmer Band (formerly the Paskofv band) within the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Tiger plays a vital role in preserving and sharing tribal heritage through […]

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our September “Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker and author Tanya McCoy. McCoy has been a traditionally published author since 2010, when she published her first children’s picture book. In 2015, she published her first book with Arcadia Publishing in the adult nonfiction genre. […]

Calling all Boos and Ghouls! The Bartlesville Area History Museum’s annual Free Spooktacular Halloween Walk, for Goblins 10 years or younger, is just around the corner! Guests will be guided […]

What lies beneath the streets of Bartlesville? What stories have been passed down through generations—and what can history actually tell us about them? Beneath Bartlesville: Tunnels, lore and Mysteries behind […]