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Pick up a free audio tour guide at the front desk of the Bob Dylan Center to explore audio and video clips as you walk through a chronological journey of the singer-songwriter’s career.
interactive exhibits connecting his life with music and world history.
The Bob Dylan Center opened in May 2022 with about half of the 29,000-square-foot space open to the public via museum exhibits on two floors. A self-guided tour starts with an 18-minute documentary on the artist. You’ll want to use one of the free audio tour guides available at the front desk for the rest of the tour. Most of the ground floor is a gallery with displays around the perimeter presenting a chronological journey through Dylan’s career and a series of six columns in the middle of the room that take you through Dylan’s creative process of writing, recording, producing and performing six different songs. These displays contain video and audio clips plus artifacts, from a coveted leather jacket worn by Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he performed electric for the first time to notebooks showing handwritten lyrics to songs.
The highlight of the second floor is a wall of artifacts. The only Dylan-owned guitar in the Tulsa collection is displayed here, along with hundreds of other items that will rotate from among the archives. There is also a screening room that includes never-before-seen film performances.
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