Oklahoma City Museum of Art

The museum features traveling special exhibitions, original selections from its own collection, a theater showing a variety of foreign, independent, and classic films each week, and a restaurant.

OKCMOA also houses a collection of Chihuly glass among the most comprehensive in the world, including the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the museum's atrium.

Later, more formal programs emerged, with an Experimental Gallery by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), open to the public.

Both institutions had been committed to art-collecting, exhibitions and public programs — but the 1980s downturn in the oil industry created a depressed local economy, undermining the city's ability to support two art institutions.

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation provided a $14.5 million capital grant, and further support was acquired from over 500 corporations, foundations, and individual donors, yielding $40 million, in entirely private funds, to build and endow the new museum.