Bruce Springsteen Exhibit Opens In Tulsa

A traveling exhibit has made a stop at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa.

Bruce Springsteen LIVE honors the contributions of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

It features stage costumes, interactive displays, and instruments.

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The exhibit allows people to see artifacts from five decades of Springsteen music.

Twin brothers Clark and Clay Wiens decided this exhibit was a must-stop.

“I have a twin brother in from California, and I said this is a priority that we would have three great musical things right now, within May 10th,” said Clark Wiens, who lives in Tulsa. “Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and of course Bruce Springsteen. And I had to show it to him. I made him get up early in the morning and get down here.”

“Music tends to upbeat the world. It’s just refreshing to hear, and to walk through what we see here now,” said Clay Wiens, who made the trip from San Francisco, CA.

Clark says this exhibit gives him a chance to relive the “Glory Days.”

“I’m an older fellow, to say the least, and I get to re-live my own life through his songs, it’s what we all do,” said Clark. “It’s memories. And these trigger memories that may be good or bad, but they still trigger memories.”

This display was curated by the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music and the Grammy Museum.

Bob Santelli with the GRAMMY Museum says this exhibit was designed to give people something like the Springsteen concert experience at a time when Springsteen is not on tour.

“To take the fan inside and underneath the concert experience,” said Santelli. “Springsteen hasn’t been performing of course due to COVID for the last few years, so this exhibit is meant to be kind of a holdover or just something that keeps fans engaged for when he does actually go on tour.”

Santelli adds that it was an easy decision to bring the exhibit to the Woody Guthrie Center.

“The obvious place for us as soon as it left New Jersey, as far as I’m concerned, was to come here,” Santelli said. “Because, a lot of people who are Springsteen fans know this already, but Woody Guthrie was a huge, huge influence on Bruce Springsteen.”

The exhibit will be at the Woody Guthrie Center until September 25th.