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Permanent Exhibits

The No Man's Land Museum offers a wide variety of permanent exhibits that detail the history of No Man's Land. Some of the museum's most unique exhibits include:
Baker Collection
The Baker Collection
The Duckett Collection
Oklahoma Panhandle State memorabilia
A two-head calf
   

Additionally, the museum devotes 4 of its rooms to items used in the daily lives of the early ranchers and homesteaders, those who later beat the double burden of the Dust bowl and the Depression, and those who witnessed the emergence of the modern Panhandle. Some of the items exhibited include antique quilts, horse drawn hearse and freight wagons, and a large barbed wire collection.

A large 5th room displays chipped stone tools, grinding stones, pottery, and other items used in the more ancient lifeways of Native Americans in the region, including an unusually extensive collection of Plains "arrowheads," a catlinite "peace pipe," and fine examples of beadwork and porcupine quillwork.
   

A 6th room is devoted to exhibits of paleontological and geological items, including dinosaur footprints and natural casts from the Kenton vicinity.

An adjacent 7th room examines the history, economy, and ecology of the area, presented through a ten panel exhibit. An 8th room displays art from the Museum's collection, and traveling exhibits.

 Mastadon and mammoth teeth
   
The Museum also contains a large archive of area newspapers, photographs, and other documents, as well as a small library on regional history.
Coming to the NMLM Exhibits: "The Dust Bowl in the Oklahoma Panhandle". This exhibit will begin April 10, 2010 and feature 17 photographs from the collections of the NMLM, Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Cimarron Heritage Center, and Joe Lansden of the Beaver Herald-Democrat. In addition to the photographs, there is a video of Dust Bowl survivors and experts. This exhibit is made possible with help from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, PTCI, Jill Kirkwood of Panhandle Printing, the OHS Research Divison, Cimarron Heritage Center, Joe Lansden, Alva & Seth Hammond, Sound Service, The Mitre Box, and those willing to share their memories and experiences perservering the Dust B9wl.