The Museum of the Red River features both temporary and long-term exhibits drawn from its own collections and from outside artists, collectors, and institutions. The Gregory Perino Gallery is dedicated to the presentation and study of regional archaeological materials. Objects from prehistoric and modern native cultures throughout the Americas are found in the Mary Bratton Curtis Gallery. The South Gallery provides the community with as many as twelve different exhibits every year. The forty-foot cast skeleton of McCurtain County’s dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, dominates its own specially constructed exhibition hall. Recent exhibits have included “Kid Stuff, Native American Childhood”, “Giclée: the Printworks of Paul Jones and Stephen Weaver”, “Double Vision” (an exhibition of contemporary quilts), “Ceramic Traditions of the Southwest: The Collector’s Perspective”, and “No Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry”.

(Left) One of the five exhibition galleries
(Right) Staff member studying artifacts

Current information about exhibitions and descriptions of ongoing and future programs for children and adults, as well as a schedule of coming events and future museum-organized trips are all covered in Sherds, the Museum’s quarterly publication. To be a subscriber, free of charge, just fill out the form provided on the Sherds page of this web site.

The “Double Vision” Exhibit

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