Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum

The story of one of Oklahoma City’s most formidable events unfolds on these now sacred grounds. The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum is comprised of two distinct but eternally interwoven parts:

The Outdoor Symbolic Memorial is a place of quiet reflection which encompasses the now-sacred soil where the Murrah Building once stood, as well as the surrounding area devastated by the attack. With the Field of Empty Chairs, Gates of Time and Reflecting Pool, it honors those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever on April 19, 1995. The Memorial is open to all 24 hours a day, year-round. 

The Memorial Museum is an interactive learning experience that occupies the west end of the former Journal Record Building. Built in 1923, this building withstood the bombing. The state-of-the-art Memorial Museum takes visitors on self-guided tours through the story of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building – as well as the world’s response in its aftermath. The Museum uses interactives and augmented reality as well as hundreds of hours of video and artifacts to show visitors each personal detail. Museum Admission maintains the outdoor Memorial.