Its new exhibit, The Longest Stretch: Route 66 in Oklahoma, opened to the public on Saturday.
Dayne Robinson is one of the exhibit’s curators. She said fitting a century of Oklahoma’s Route 66 into an exhibit was a big challenge.
“Some people are like, ‘Oh, well, it’s Route 66, everybody tells the same thing,’” she said. “And I was like, ‘Well, this is the state of Oklahoma. We can’t just talk about Oklahoma City Route 66. We need to tell the entire story.’”…