While you’re visiting the OKC National Memorial, don’t miss the chance to tour the Memorial Museum, which has gone through $10 million in improvements and renovations in time for the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
The museum now features additional interactive exhibits and includes:
- An ‘Evidence Trail,’ showing how law enforcement officers put together the evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of the bomber, Timothy McVeigh; his accomplice, Terry Nichols; and a lesser conspirator, Michael Fortier. The exhibit now includes McVeigh’s getaway car. McVeigh was executed for the deaths in 2001; Nichols is serving a life in sentence without the possibility of parole.
- A ‘Responsibility Theater,’ which lets visitors explore the themes of forgiveness and punishment.
- Oral histories of those who were involved in the bombing aftermath.
- Survivor experiences.
- Artifacts.
- An official recording of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board that had just started when the blast went off.
- A ‘Gallery of Honor’ that depicts the lives of the 168 who were killed with personal photographs and artifacts contributed by their families.
- Information about rescue and recovery operations.
Museum admission will be free on Cox Community Day April 19, but on other days tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for seniors, military personnel and students ages 6-17; and free for children ages 5 and younger.
For more information or to explore the area online first, go online to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum's web page.
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