USA Guide
The Great Plains
National Cowboy Museum and Heritage Center
The National Cowboy Museum and Heritage Center is a real treat, combining "high art" and popular art in one loving collection. In the works of Remington and Russell the link between Western art and Western movies is very clear. The paintings look like film stills, and titles such as Waiting for Trouble evoke the cinema's endlessly reworked myths of the West. Large exhibitions focus on contemporary Native American work, much of it colourful, bitter, and subversive. John Wayne's collection is a delight for the cowboy fetishist, and the Western Performers Hall of Fame pays homage to movie cowboys and cowgirls in hilariously reverent oil paintings and memorabilia.
Address: 1700 NE 63rd St
Opening time: Daily 9am–5pm
Price: $8.50
Website: www.nationalcowboymuseum.org