Bob Dylan is getting his own museum next year. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the museum is set to open on May 10, 2022, and will contain more than 100,000 artifacts linked with the iconic singer-songwriter and Nobel Prize winner.
The Bob Dylan Center, which has been in the works for several years, will offer visitors a unique glimpse into Dylan’s life and music career through temporary, traveling, and permanent exhibitions. It will also be home to Dylan’s Archive.
The items that will be made available to the public, most of them for the first time, will include rare photographs and videos, memorabilia, unreleased songs, handwritten lyrics, and other items. Among them is the very first demo of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” which was recorded by Dylan in 1962 in his friend’s apartment.
Fittingly, the Bob Dylan Center will be located in the proximity of a museum dedicated to folk legend and Oklahoma-native Woody Guthrie.
After years of relative studio silence, Bob Dylan surprisingly returned last year with his 39th studio album Rough and Rowdy Ways. The record, Dylan’s first to have original material since 2012, met with universal acclaim and went No.1 in ten countries.
Earlier in 2021, Dylan decided to sell the rights to his entire song catalog to Universal Music. The reported price was around $400 million.
