Possible Downtown Museum

[joiei]

What part of the Brady district will it be located in?  Hopefully it will face the new park where Central Freight is now. 

[dsjeffries]

This blows them all out of the water.

That's good news. Can't wait to hear more when you return from the press conference.

[sgrizzle]

It's over by Brady theater, and not far from this new museum:

[dsjeffries]

Wow... Two music museums within walking distance of each other... and then there's the Mickey Mantle Museum, which I'm hoping is still going in. Seems like we're getting a true arts and museum district...

[TheArtist]

Images brought to you by the Tulsa Now Press Core....

[swake]

Holy Crap

[Renaissance]

That crashing sound was my jaw hitting the floor.



Spectacular.

[dsjeffries]

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I just had a palpitation! What details do you have? Can't really discern a location given the renderings. Name? Owned/operated by? What's the "public/private" part?

Wow...

[custosnox]

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Now that would be really nice.  I'm assuming it would take the place of the empty warehouse across the street from cains?  It's much bigger then the one that was posted by sgrizzle

[T-TownMike]

I really like it. I hope it actually takes place.

[Renaissance]

Now that would be really nice.  I'm assuming it would take the place of the empty warehouse across the street from cains?  It's much bigger then the one that was posted by sgrizzle

Judging from the rendering it looks like it's across Brady from the Brady theater, built on the formerly-empty downtown city block of parking bounded by Archer, Brady, Boulder and Cheyenne.

gonna get crowded down there . . .

[dsjeffries]

Tulsa World article on "Oklahoma Pop": http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090519_298_0_Affybi520668

A fifty-by-eighty-foot outdoor LED screen, a rooftop cafe and exhibits detailing Oklahoma's role in contemporary culture are the featured elements of a new downtown museum formally announced Tueday by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Oklahoma Pop, as the museum would be known, is planned for 45,000 square feet in the Brady District, OHS Executive Director Bob Blackburn said during a press conference at Lola's at the Bowery.

"Our conversations started here in Lola's three years ago," Blackburn said. "We want to duplicate the success of the Oklahoma History Center with a Tulsa flair."

Blackburn said OHS will ask the Legislature for a $25 million bond issue next year, with another $8 million to be raised from other sources. The George Kaiser Family Foundation has already pledged the first $1 million of that.

Blackburn said three potential sites, all in the Brady District, are under consideration for the museum.

[Conan71]

Tulsa World article on "Oklahoma Pop": http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090519_298_0_Affybi520668

We have to go to the legislature for $25mm of it???

I wonder what OKC will do with their $100mm "compromise" in that bill?

/snark

[carltonplace]

I agree with Floyd, based on the rendering this is Boulder Ave....time to get the bridge fixed.

[TURobY]

I agree with Floyd, based on the rendering this is Boulder Ave....time to get the bridge fixed.

The article states that there are three potential sites.