History
Bruce Goff, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed the Cox House in 1949 for Julius and Opal Cox. The house serves as the main administrative building, archives area and displays special exhibits of the museum. As mentioned in the Ken Burns PBS documentary, The Dust Bowl and Tim Eagan's book, The Worst Hard Times, Cimarron County was in the center of the 1930's Dust Bowl. The museum has collected and preserved Dust Bowl oral histories, photographs and artifacts that currently on exhibit. The French Building serves as the main museum building and the exhibits reflect comprehensive history of the area. The Santa Fe Trail exhibit traces the story of the Trail through photographs and artifacts. It features life on the trail and a short video of trail sites in Cimarron County. The museum is also the home of the Edgington Building which houses antique cars and buggies, the Volunteer Farm Machinery Building, a functioning Windmill and Dugout and Cimmy, our replica Aptosaurus.
Specialties
Where Dinosaurs reigned, Indians roamed, Explorers claimed, the Santa Fe Trail Crossed and the Dirt Storms raged.