Your next stop is the American Banjo Museum. Inside, this institution is dedicated to the history of the banjo, and its exhibits trace the instrument’s rise from its arrival in North America via the Atlantic slave trade to modern times. The museum was founded in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1988 by Jack Canine and moved to Oklahoma City in 2009.
Its origins also include a collaboration between Oklahoma attorney Brady Hunt and Indiana businessman Jack Canine, who founded the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame Museum in Guthrie in 1998. Canine donated more than 60 ornately decorated four-string tenor and plectrum banjos, and a 2007 expansion brought a European collection of 182 "jazz-age" instruments, giving the museum representation of every model from every major manufacturer of the jazz age, which ran from 1920 to 1940. The museum was originally oriented toward four-string banjos but by 2013 its focus widened to include five-string banjos.
By 2018 the museum possessed more than 400 instruments and was able to exhibit more than 300 of them on two floors of galleries. Notice more than three hundred banjos gleaming across two floors, part of a four-hundred piece collection.