Bob Dylan Center® To Open In Tulsa, Oklahoma On May 10, 2022
World-class facility designed by Olson Kundig will house and exhibit more than 100,000 exclusive cultural treasures created and owned by Dylan over seven decades, including original manuscripts, unreleased recordings, unseen film performances, photos and more.
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The Bob Dylan Center
®
(BDC) will open on May 10, 2022, welcoming visitors from around the world to access and interact with more than 100,000 exclusive cultural treasures found in
The Bob Dylan Archive®. These include handwritten lyric manuscripts to some of the world s most treasured songs, previously unreleased recordings, never-before-seen film performances, rare and unseen photographs, visual art and other priceless items spanning Bob Dylan s unparalleled seven decades as one of the world s most important cultural figures.
A trove of Bob Dylan archives will be open to the public at the Bob Dylan Center, a new museum opening on May 10, 2022 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Located in the Tulsa Arts District near the Woody Guthrie Center, the Bob Dylan Center will feature over 100,000 exclusive artifacts spanning 60 years of Dylan’s career, including handwritten lyric manuscripts, previously unreleased recordings and film performances, rare photographs, and more. Check out the announcement below.
The museum’s opening concludes the cataloguing and digitization of a secret archive of Dylan’s works that was sold to the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa in 2016. The three-story Bob Dylan Center will be the primary public venue for the Bob Dylan Archive and will feature permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibitions.
Rolling Stone Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa to Open to the Public in May 2022
Museum to feature artifacts, never-before-seen footage, and unreleased recordings from Bob Dylan Archive
By Olson Kundig
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma a museum dedicated to artifacts from the singer’s massive archive will open to the public on May 10th, 2022.
The announcement of the Bob Dylan Center comes five years after the secret Bob Dylan Archive first arrived at Tulsa’s Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum.
The archive purchased by the George Kaiser Family Foundation features over 100,000 items, including handwritten lyrics, never-before-seen concert performances and live footage, rare photographs, and unreleased recordings; one of those recordings, the earliest-known version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” that Dylan recorded at his friends’ apartment in the autumn of 1962, was available to download courtesy of the Bob Dylan C
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