OKCMOA offers great escape from summer heat

Looking for an activity that gets you out of the Oklahoma heat? The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is the place to go! With free admission for children 17 and under, it’s a great option to add to your calendar this summer with exhibitions, films and a permanent collection that offers something for everyone.

If you missed the opening in March, you still have time to catch The Perfect Shot: Walter Iooss Jr. and the Art of Sports Photography, an original exhibition of photographs from legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss Jr. This exhibition features more than 80 photographs spanning 50 years of sports photography and will be at OKCMOA until September 5.

To celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the Chihuly collection at the museum, a new exhibition from Dave Chihuly, Chihuly Then and Now: The Collection at Twenty, will open on June 18. This new exhibition will feature glass and paintings from 50 years of Chihuly’s career. If you are a fan and admirer of Chihuly’s work, this showcase will feature new pieces that have never been displayed in OKC. The exhibition will be open for a year but you won’t want to wait to see the incredible artistry.

The OKCMOA also has great films you can catch as well. For fans of classic thrillers, the museum will screen The Servant, a 1960s film from director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter, on June 24-25. This British film has been restored in 4K and follows “the escalating power-struggle between posh Tony (James Fox) and his imperious servant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde).”

For Studio Ghibli enthusiasts, a recently rediscovered film from Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, before the creation of Studio Ghibli, will play June 24-25. Panda! Go Panda! is a two-part film that “follows an unflappable little girl named Mimiko who befriends a pair of mischievous pandas when her grandmother leaves on a trip.”

Closing out the June film schedule is Neptune Frost, a sci-fi punk musical from Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman set in the hilltops of Burundi, Africa. It tells the story of “a group of escaped miners who form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective.” Screened at the Cannes, Sundance and New York Film Festivals, this film will be shown on June 30 at 7 p.m.

For more about the current and upcoming exhibitions and films, visit the OKCMOA website to learn more and purchase tickets.

This article originally appeared on The Better Life blog.