Bartlesville Museums
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Museums in Bartlesville, OK, Oklahoma.
The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum is open to the public with free admission and follows the story of a small Bartlesville oil business becoming the world-wide energy company. Open Monday through Saturday.
Bartlesville visitors wanting to travel back in time to the days when the area was inhabited by Native Americans or when the first commercial oil well was installed in Oklahoma can visit the Bartlesville Area History Museum in the City Center Building. Open Monday through Friday.
The Tom Mix Museum is situated in Dewey and showcases the professional life of Tom Mix, the "King of the Cowboys" of the silent screen movies. The museum is operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society and displays Mix's costumes, memorabilia, photographs and some of his personal property, as well as running silent movies starring Mix in the museum's theater. Open Tuesday through Sunday, winter hours vary.
Prairie Song is an 1800s recreated pioneer village with a two-story saloon, homestead cabin, schoolhouse and school marm's house, chapel, trading post, rock jail house, covered bridge and more, all surrounded by an authentic working ranch. Escorted and unescorted tours available for the public or groups, advance notice required.
