Homeschool Day at The Cowboy

The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City has planned an exciting day of learning and exploring for homeschooling families across the state! Join us!

When?

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, from 10 am – 5 pm.

What Can You Do?

Enjoy an exciting day of learning and exploring! See galleries filled with Western art and artifacts. Explore Liichokoshkomo’, an outdoor interactive, multicultural education space that introduces the American West through science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and citizenship in an immersive, hands-on, minds-on environment. 

Enjoy an exciting day of learning and exploring! See galleries filled with Western art and artifacts. Explore Liichokoshkomo’, an outdoor interactive, multicultural education space that introduces the American West through science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and citizenship in an immersive, hands-on, minds-on environment.

Students can:

  • Visit Native American dwellings
  • View Western vistas
  • Explore the playground
  • Learn about ancient and contemporary Native American traditions
  • Explore the role of trading posts in the West
  • Learn more about cattle drives and decisions cowboys had to make
  • Try out steer-roping
  • Learn about packing a wagon and decide what to take on a journey out West
  • Immerse yourself in Prosperity Junction, our recreated turn-of-the-century frontier town.
  • Take a tour of the galleries
    • 11:00 a.m. – High school-aged students (space is limited on a first-come, first-served basis)
    • 1:00 p.m. – Elementary-aged students (space is limited on a first-come, first-served basis)

Be sure to visit our temporary exhibitions: Italy’s Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma, Nations at War: Field Sketches, Treasures from our Atherton Vault, and Lighting Pathways: Matriarchs of Oklahoma Native Art.

Space is limited. Activities while supplies last. Lunch space is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

How much?

Admission is free for children and discounted to ______ for adults. (Price is being adjusted by the museum. Check back soon for an update.

Activities while supplies last. Lunch space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For questions, email education@nationalcowboymuseum.org.

How to Register?

(This may change as the museum updates its plan.) The museum is now completely open, and registration is unnecessary. We do ask that you take a minute and visit with the Museum and the HSOK Staff who will be at the event to learn more about both organizations.

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