The University of Tulsa and the city have been good stewards of the Gilcrease, says the editorial.
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The University of Tulsa has been operating the museum for the city since 2008 and has six years left on its agreement.
Demolition began Wednesday morning at the entrance near the museum's restaurant. The project to replace the aging structures will cost $83.6 million, with groundbreaking set for May 3.
Construction on the new museum building — to be built on the same site, 1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road — should begin in the spring. It's scheduled to finish in November 2024.
The city of Tulsa will demolish the current structure and begin construction of a new museum facility on the same site in early 2022 with completion expected to take between two and three years.
Officials held a Zoom meeting with neighborhood residents Thursday to provide details on the height and footprint of the museum's proposed new building.
A Tulsa Public Schools committee got it right with its recommendation that a newly merged elementary school be named after Dr. John Hope Franklin — a scholar, role model and local hero.
The school will combine prekindergarten through fifth grade students who formerly attended ECDC/Bunche and Gilcrease elementaries. The school will be located at the former home of Bunche near 56th Street North and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Gilcrease Museum will make the only certified, handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence the centerpiece of its ongoing exhibition, "Masterworks from the Gilcrease Collection."
Five theme gardens — pre-Columbian, pioneer, Colonial, Victorian and rock — are located on 23 of the museum’s 460 acres. Each reflect the gardening styles and landscapes found during those time periods.
County officials discussed upcoming projects, including plans for the Gilcrease Expressway and other roadwork projects, at a recent meeting.
The city of Tulsa was looking for a new and better way to manage some of its most valuable and prestigious assets — Gilcrease Museum and its priceless collection of art and artifacts of the Americas.
Gallagher & Associates has done work around the world, including for the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., the National Gallery Singapore and the Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa.
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As important as they have been to our past, the arts are proving to be even more important to our future nourishing a creative renaissance in Tulsa and throughout our region.
Local officials hosted a meeting Thursday to discuss the status of the Gilcrease Expressway extension project from I-44 to Edison Street in Tulsa County.
The Gilcrease Museum renovation was the most expensive Vision Tulsa project approved by voters last year.
King, a noted expert on American Indian history and culture, had been serving as director of the Helmerich Center of American Research at the Gilcrease Museum.
Sunday marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Susan Neal, a former city councilor who has served as chief operating officer at Gilcrease Museum since 2014, has been named the museum’s executive director.
Unique public-private partnership proposed to complete the western stretch of the Gilcrease utilizing a turnpike still needs a private partner.
Gilcrease Museum hosts two exhibits that showcase the artistry and psychology of posters aimed at African-Americans and citizens on the home front.
Tukufu Zuberi, a noted educator, award-winning documentarian and star of the PBS series “History Detectives,” will be in Tulsa this weekend to take part in the opening of an exhibit drawn from his personal collection.
Over the next year or so, six governmental entities will figure out how to form a partnership and gather all funding available for the project — estimated to be about two-thirds of the total cost. The final third will be sought from a private investor and will be repaid first out of the tolls.
One aspect of Gilcrease Museum’s vast collection are some 25,000 items created during the 19th century by members of various Plains Indian tri…
Invitations from Mayor G.T. Bynum and Gov. Mary Fallin are being delivered this week to area leaders for a March 10 event at Chandler Park to announce details of the plan.