The Woody Guthrie Center is a public museum and archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dedicated to the life and legacy of American folk musician and singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. The Center also contains the archives of folk singer, songwriter, and fellow social activist Phil Ochs.
The Woody Guthrie Center is at 102 East Reconciliation Way in the Tulsa Arts District. It features an interactive museum where the public may view musical instruments used by Guthrie, samples of his original artwork, notebooks, lyrics in his handwriting, and photographs and historical memorabilia that illustrate his life, music, and political activities. Visitors may also view a short biographical film and listen to samples of his music and other artists influenced and inspired by Guthrie. In addition, the Center sponsors various folk music events. Bed Bug Exterminator Tulsa
The Woody Guthrie Archives, the world’s largest collection of material relating to Guthrie’s life, are housed on-site in a climate-controlled facility partially visible through windows from the public museum area. The archives contain manuscripts, lyrics, correspondence, artwork, scrapbooks, musical recordings, books, and photographs and are open to researchers by appointment.
Phil Ochs Archives
In September 2014, Meegan Lee Ochs announced that she was donating her father’s archives, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, to the Center. Guthrie heavily influenced Ochs and was a troubadour and social activist in his own right. The donation of notebooks, photographs, videotapes, and other memorabilia is the first collection included in the center from an artist other than Guthrie.
Virtual Reality “Dust Bowl” Exhibit
In 2018, the Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa, OK announced its plan to host a new program bowl intended to offer visitors the opportunity to experience Dust Bowl conditions in the Oklahoma Panhandle during 1934–1938. While wearing a virtual reality headset, they will sit on a replica of a front porch, watching a dust cloud roll in across the prairie to envelop them. The Dust Bowl inspired many of Guthrie’s musical works, leading him to take up the causes of migrant workers and other people disenfranchised by an ecological disaster.
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