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With the city's interesting mix of Southern settlers, Northern oil-men, and Western ranchers and thanks to Tulsa's location in an area rich with Native American history and culture, the city and surrounding areas are home to many unique museums and attractions.
Tulsa’s culture is apparent in the city’s most prominent art museums, the Philbrook Museum of Art, and Thomas Gilcrease Museum of Art. The Philbrook is a fine art museum on the former estate of oil pioneer Waite Phillips. The museum is the largest estate in one of Tulsa’s former oil baron neighborhoods noted for impressive and elaborate art deco style mansions. Distinguished for original artwork, the museum building itself is an award winning piece of artwork. The expansive grounds of the museum are an elaborate and recently renovated garden. Thomas Gilcrease Museum of Art houses the largest collection of American Western and American Indian art in the United States, and is located north of downtown Tulsa in the Osage Hills. The new Oklahoma Aquarium is the state’s only freestanding aquarium, and boasts a 500,000 gallon walk-through shark tank, located in the suburb of Jenks, Oklahoma.
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