The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is one of the finest university art museums in the United   
    States. Strengths of the 8,000-object permanent collection are French Impressionism,
    twentieth-century American painting and sculpture, contemporary art, traditional and
    contemporary Native American art, art of the Southwest, ceramics, Asian art, photography and
    graphics from the sixteenth century to the present. Visit the Museum of Art Web site.

    Over 300 million years of Oklahoma’s natural history can be seen in the museum’s five galleries   
    that feature dinosaurs and thousands of other artifacts of the archaeological past.
    Visit the Museum of Natural History Web site.

    The Adkins Collection, valued at approximately $50 million, is a collection of Native American             works of art predominately by Taos artists. It includes more than 3300 objects including 1100
    two-dimensional works, 3700 pieces of pottery, 1600 examples of jewelry and silverwork, and
    nearly 250 pieces of other Native arts. Read more about The Adkins Collection.

    Founded by William Bennett Bizzell, president of The University of Oklahoma (1925-1941), the
    collection of 665 Bibles includes Bibles in more than 14 languages and several incunabula
    (books published in the infancy of printing, before 1500), the oldest of which is a hand-painted
    manuscript prayer book written on vellum from the fifteenth century.
    Visit the Bible Collection Web site.

    The papers of the Carl Albert Collection reveal part of the long history of Congress; the collection
    documents Albert, his congressional colleagues, and the major issues of political campaigns of
    the late 1940s to mid-1970s such as Vietnam, busing, the economy, the energy crisis and policy,
    gun control and Watergate. Visit the Carl Albert Collection Web site.

    The Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and is home to more
    than 100 early prints of paintings by Charles M. Russell and contains an ever-growing collection
    of books, manuscripts, theses and dissertations, periodicals and journals, artist files, and slides
    on western American art from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.
    Visit the Charles M. Russell Center site.

    The Government Documents collection spans from the early nineteenth century to the most
    current federally produced documents. With more 2.8 million items, it is a selective depository    
    that receives 90% of all federally disseminated documents and official publications from several 
    international organizations including the United Nations and the European Union.
    Visit the Government Documents Collection Web site.

    The Harry W. Bass Business History Collection contains books, microforms, videos and
    journals on a number of topics including the histories of business leaders and firms, and the
    economic, social and political forces that influence the role of business in society.
    Visit the Business History Collection Web site.

    The History of Science Collection is one of the largest collections of rare scientific books and
    documents in the United States with items such as Hrabanus Maurus' Opus de Universo (the
    Collection's oldest book, printed before 20 July 1467) and Galileo's handwritten corrections to    
    one of his first editions. Visit the History of Science Collection Web site.

    The John and Mary Nichols Rare Books and Special Collections are comprised of rare books
    and special materials in English, European, and American literatures dating from the fifteenth
    century to the present, including several first-edition works by Charles Dickens.
    Visit the Rare Books Collection Web site.

    The OU College of Law houses several collections including The Native People's Collection,
    Federal Government Depository Library Program, Native American Legal Resources, Native
    American Constitution and Law Digitalization Project, Rare Book Collection, and Video Collection.
    Visit the Law Library collections Web site.

    The Orville S. Witt Collection was established in 1946 as a memorial by the parents of Lt. Orville
    S. Witt Jr., an architecture student whose plane was shot down during World War II. It is a
    gathering of books on the subjects of the history of architecture, Bruce Goff, Mendall Glickman
    and Frank Lloyd Wright. Visit the Orville S. Witt Collection Web site.

    The Western History Collections is most known for its Photographic Archives, which holds more
    than 250,000 prints and negatives of the American Southwest and West from the period
    1870-1940. The Photographic Archives include the work of frontier photographers and focuses
    on the themes of the growth and development of the American west, the state of Oklahoma and
    The University of Oklahoma. Visit the Western History Collection Web site.