Skeletons: Museum of Osteology

Jonathan Elmore
7 days ago
2 min read

Updated: 11 hours ago

From my earliest memories, I was fascinated by bones. Once I figured out that everything except bugs and the like had bones, I wanted to know what they looked like. Since the internet wasn't available, I hit the Enid library to find books about skeletons. My mom thought it was a little morbid so she didn't encourage me taking books home, but I looked at them while I was there.

Flash forward a few decades and I'm in Oklahoma City. I pass by a billboard that read SKELETONS and had info I couldn't read at the speed I was going. So I checked Google when I got home and found the Museum of Osteology. I couldn't wait to go, but since I was working full time, I had to. But that Saturday, I jumped in the truck and headed to Southeast Oklahoma City.

When I got there I was like the kids in the Willy Wonka film, utterly gobsmacked. It's not a giant facility, but it's packed with as many samples of skeletons as one could hope for. I involuntarily kept saying, "Ooh, a monkey!" "Ooh, a bat!" "Ooh, a hippo!" The first time I went, I looked at every skeleton, then went back to see a few that I wanted to see again before I left. I enjoyed myself here and I will go back to take friends to see it so I can see everything again.

The museum also has a skeleton processing lab in the same building. I wanted to get a job there, but I guess my mere curiosity wasn't quite enough. That's okay. I would like to look at skeletons casually rather than work on them everyday. Even though the voice in my head says "But wouldn't it be cool?!!" Ha!

The Skeleton Museum also host events, classes, and homeschool day for kids so they can learn early that it isn't a morbid emo pasttime, but a wholesome curiosity. These events may develop kids to become the next osteology professor at a university or the next crop of employees at one of the coolest museums I've been to. They also have a Forensic Night for adults to solve real crime cases!

So if you're have ever wondered what it looks like inside a mammal, check out Skeleton: The Osteology Museum. You'll love it.

10301 S Sunnylane Rd, Oklahoma City

405-814-0006

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