For a $10 million endeavor, the Bob Dylan Center makes a strong case for a complimentary item often taken for granted. Throughout the new building in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, visitors can see the songwriter’s lyrics and notes scribbled onto notepad.
such a paper-based museum,” historian and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley declared enthusiastically. He and his wife were contributors to the center resulting in their names being attached to the Douglas and Anne Brinkley Archive Reading Room, where the archive dwells.
A man walks past a portion of the archive wall at the Bob Dylan Center, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. The center offers an immersive film experience, performance space, a studio where visitors can play producer and"mix" different elements of instrumentation in Dylan's songs and a curated tour where people can take a musical journey through the stages of his career. These pillars are fenced in by a timeline that tracks Dylan’s path from Duluth and Hibbing, Minn.
The museum’s effect is enveloping with an immersive series of sounds to accompany the old photos, notebooks, contextual panels and video elements.For those who missed news of the sale of Dylan’s archive several years ago, the Bob Dylan Center’s placement in Tulsa might appear random. But it’s no great mystery.
A dedicated Russell fan, Teresa Knox, rescued the building from ruin and has turned it into a working recording studio again, as well as a space to display more than 40 years of Russell memorabilia. The legendary Cain’s Ballroom — a crucial space in the history of western swing king Bob Wills — is in the area, also. These spaces have turned the city of 400,000 — a place with a rich musical history — into a formidable destination for music enthusiasts.
“A guitar in a glass case, you have to have some of that for the people,” he said. “It’s got to be for everybody, hasn’t it? Think about students. If you go to the Mardi Gras Museum in New Orleans or the jazz museum in Kansas City, I took my boys there. They have Charlie Parker’s plastic sax. To see the instrument and think, ‘He borrowed that to play one of the greatest jazz concerts ever.’ Some random instrument, though, well I don’t want to say.
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