July Lunch and Learn – E. Sean Standing Bear

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is proud to announce a special event for our July Lunch & Learn series. On July 17, 2025 from 12:00-1:00PM, E. Sean Standing Bear, great-grandson […]

August Lunch & Learn –with Tad Jones.

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our August “Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker, former State representative and Will Rogers Memorial Museum Director, Tad Jones! […]

September Lunch & Learn –with Bob Fraser

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our September “Third Thursday Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker, Bob Fraser! Bob fell in love with the magic […]

Newest Exhibit, “Outlaw Trails and Legendary Hideouts”

This Fall, BAHM is proud to present: “Outlaw Trails and Legendary Hideouts” On display from October 1st through January 9th, the exhibit takes visitors on a journey exploring the hideouts infamous outlaws occupied and the trails that led them there. The Sooner State has a pretty wild past and Oklahoma’s outlaw hideouts are a testament […]

October Lunch & Learn –with Mark Archuleta

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our “October Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker, Mark Archuleta! Archuleta is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, journalist, and performer. A fifth-generation Coloradoan of Spanish Basque descent, he grew up steeped in the history of the American West and the colorful characters who inhabited it. Archuleta […]

Halloween Walk 2025

Calling all Boos and Ghouls! The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our annual Spooktacular Halloween Walk! Goblins 10 years or younger, will be guided through BAHM where they can find candy stops and win spooky prizes at game stations. Families can enjoy our ghoulish selfie station and a craft! This is sure […]

November Pop Up Lunch & Learn – Dr. Michelle M. Martin, “From the Indian Territory to the Stage: The Unlikely Career of Husti-Coluc-Chee the Seminole Preacher, 1843-1890”

The Bartlesville Area History Museum is excited to announce our, "November Lunch and Learn" event will feature guest speaker, Dr. Michelle M. Martin. Dr. Michelle M. Martin is a Michigander by birth and a Kansan and Okie by choice. Martin is a historian who earned her doctorate at the University of New Mexico in May […]

H.V. Foster’s La Quinta Mansion Tour

La Quinta Mansion at Oklahoma Wesleyan University 2201 Silver Lake Road, BARTLESVILLE, OK, United States

On November 20, 2025, at 12:00 PM, we will be taking a journey across town to explore one of Bartlesville’s hidden gems, the La Quinta Mansion at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, 2201 Silver Lake Road. Join Education Coordinator, Denise Nowlin, as she spins a tale of the genius of Edward Delk, the architect of the mansion, […]