Old Town Museum's Newest Exhibit
Come to the Old Town Museum and see our newest exhibit featuring water drums, sanitation kits, radiation detectors and other U.S. government-issued supplies that were stored in Elk City’s fallout shelters from the 1960s until the 1990s. These items were available to the public in the event and aftermath of a nuclear strike. This exhibit is partly a remake of an earlier exhibit curated by Landry Brewer, a Bernhardt Assistant Professor of History at the Southwestern Oklahoma State University college at Sayre, and author of Cold War Oklahoma (2019), who donated most of the items displayed here to the Elk City Museum Complex.
Civil Defense storage building at Elk City Municipal Airport, June 2018. Courtesy of Landry Brewer.