Museum of the Great Plains

Awesome place!! You have to go! My 14 year old daughter and I stopped on our way to the wildlife refuge. She said this was the best part of her day. The gift shop is great and the museum is definitely worth your time. Very impressed. Great staff! Awesome tornado simulation. We really enjoyed it.

A good stop for an hour or more. Very interesting information about the area and it's history. I also enjoyed an entertaining "tornado" shelter experience. They also have outdoor exhibition with old nice steam engine! Finally, the lawn in front it populated with Prarie Dogs, it's funny to watch them.

Excellent place for young and old. My grandson really enjoyed the sensory section. Great way to teach local history

Simply remarkable. A real experience for all ages from 6months to 99 years old. I am so happy we came here. We will be back.

We stayed in Lawton for the night and looked up what to do there. I found this museum, so we decided to check it out. I'm glad we did. The staff was wonderful. The museum was very informative. If you have children, there were a lot of fun interactive things for them to do. If you want to get a feel for what it was like as the great plains developed, then you should visit this museum. We only had 2 hours, you probably need to allow at least 4 hours, especially if you have children. We had my 94 year old mom with us, and she enjoyed it and was able to get around just fine.

What a great place, with all of the hands on activities your kids will love it. The tornado simulator maybe a bit much for younger children but as for the rest it's a must. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly. The souvenir store was a bit small and as a result it didn't offer much. Overall it's a place where learning is fun.

The less travelled path of Oklahoma, a museum for all ages. With an extensive collection of Native American artifacts, each comes with informative description, or at least speculation, you can easily spend hours without realizing. In fact, the museum has acquired a lot of Native American merchandise from a shop that is already out of business. Furthermore, the exhibits related to the sorrow and sufferings of Native Americans due to forceful displacement are touching. Once scattered across the country, but was confined to a "reservation" known as the land of unorganized territory, the homes of Native Americans further shrank after allotment with the surplus open to settlement at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the sad history of Oklahoma.

Another aspect worth noting is that there are lots of interactive exhibits for children to enjoy, including a plastic bison from which younger visitors can learn about anatomy, and a mini archeological experience providing a glimpse of what uncovering artifacts is like. My niece didn't want to leave.

I love edutainment. This is a Hands-On museum unless obviously marked or encased. They had a theater, an outdoor area for reenactors & a garage & a train, they had a couple of little Zen areas where you could listen to a fountain, but I can tell you with 100% certainty I wish that my area had something like this to talk about how humans evolved in the area that I live in. It was so interactive & entertaining & i didn't have any kids with me!! Not in the safest town but 100% worth a visit, in fact I actually want to go back just to spend more time there.

Amazing place to visit and learn, tons of interactive experiences!

We take the grandkiddos every year when they are in town visiting.
They always enjoy the exhibits new ones and the old ones. We usually spend 3 to 4 hours there when were there. Always a great time!

We absolutely LOVE MGP! It’s an amazing place for kids to have fun and explore while learning about Great Plains history in an exciting and interactive way. Absolutely worth a visit (or ten)!

I was very impressed with this museum. I guess I expected a dry, old school museum. But my five and seven year olds very much enjoyed the fact that at least every other exhibit had something to make or hands-on do. They equally enjoyed the kids play items upstairs as much as the history stuff downstairs. We were there for 3 1/2 hours and we probably could’ve made it way more than four if we had brought lunch and taken a lunch break.

I absolutely LOVE this place! I ended up buying the family membership for $99 because my kids have so much fun. I was blown away the first time we came because this museum is not what I would expect in the best way. I expected it to be like any other museum where you just read about the history and see all of the art and collections… NOPE… it’s even better. They have a really cool simulator that you sit in and hear the story about terrible Tuesday while feeling like you are THERE experiencing it. They have a beautiful gallery that shows you photos from very, very long ago! It’s just beautiful. It’s a great place for all of the family because they’ve got things for adults and so much interactive things for children to do. I strongly recommend checking it out, it’s worth it… AND right out front of the museum you get to see a bunch of cute little prairie dogs!

I lived here a while without going because I thought a museum would be too grown up for my 6 year old twins and 4 year old, but this is an interactive hands on museum that kids can enjoy too. We got the membership and plan to visit all of the OMN museums in Oklahoma. They even have crafts. There are dinosaurs there currently but I think that exhibit will change. We spent a couple hours and plan to go back every now and then and get the most use out of the membership. Go early if you want to get there before the crowds on weekends.

Awesome place! Family oriented. It has very knowledgeable employees. What impressed me the most was the tornado simulator. It is a “shelter” where you go in just as you would around here. It is intense, so I wouldn’t go in with very young children. It can be scary. Also, lots of interactive games for kids. It reminds me of a children’s museum,but it also has very interesting things to learn for the parents. A must visit.

Amazing visit, highly recommend to anyone visiting the area

Visiting my son stationed here he wanted to take his 4 year old niece. You could spend hours here and be entertained the whole time. My favorite was the tornado simulator and the newspaper origin exhibit. The mini settlement area literally felt like you stepped back in time.The building and creating areas were most fun for the 4 year old. She really had a great time. We spent $37.00 total for entry fee. Military discounts applied. There's also age 62 and up discount. It's a great time for the whole family.

Nice museum. Lot's of good local history.

This museum was a delightful surprise to us. We expected a quick walkthrough and didn’t actually plan to stay for as long as we did. Very interesting exhibits with highlighting the local history. A must visit when in Lawton.

A great museum for children of all ages including the child in all adults! So many hands-on activities that help folks learn the history of the Great Plains and it's peoples. I can't wait to come back and bring my grandkids!