Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Oklahoma City National Memorial, An Affiliated Area Of The National Park Service; Museum Opened 2001 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The memorial to the 168 people killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 19 April 1995, built on the site of the building itself in downtown Oklahoma City. The outdoor Symbolic Memorial is free and open 24 hours a day: two bronze Gates of Time marked 9:01 and 9:03 frame the minute of the blast, a shallow reflecting pool runs between them along what was NW 5th Street, and 168 empty bronze and glass chairs stand in nine rows for the nine floors, the nineteen small ones for the children. Above them grows the Survivor Tree, an American elm that lived through the explosion. The separate ticketed Memorial Museum, in the surviving Journal Record Building, takes visitors through the day minute by minute, beginning in a hearing room where a recording of the blast is played. A $15.8 million expansion called Moving Foreword is under construction until spring 2027, and both remain fully open.
NW 6th Street at North Harvey Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102, United States
Outdoor Symbolic Memorial open 24 hours, every day, free. Memorial Museum Monday-Saturday 9 AM-5 PM, Sunday noon-5 PM, ticket sales ending an hour before closing; closed Easter, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day (check memorialmuseum.com).
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