--- title: Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive Acquired for $15M to $20M description: It’ll be housed on public display in Tulsa authors: - name: Denver Nicks url: https://money.com/author/denver-nicks/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 60 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://x.com/DenverNicks - https://plus.google.com/105122198911201917932 former_staff: true published: '2016-03-02T22:12:41.000Z' modified: '2016-03-02T22:12:41.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Bob Dylan - Dylan archive - History - Music - Oklahoma - pubdesk - Tulsa - woody guthrie word_count: 246 canonical: https://money.com/bob-dylan-secret-archive-acquired-for-15m-to-20m/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Bob Dylan plays acoustic guitar and smokes a cigarette in this headshot from September 1961 in New York City, New York.](https://img.money.com/2016/03/160302_em_dylan.jpg?crop=0px%2C157px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85) *Bob Dylan plays acoustic guitar and smokes a cigarette in this headshot from September 1961 in New York City, New York.* For years rumor circulated among Bob Dylan enthusiasts of a legendary secret archive including notebooks that many hoped would [reveal](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/music/bob-dylans-secret-archive.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) how Dylan wrote some of his most iconic songs. In this case the legend happens to be true. Two institutions in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced Wednesday they have acquired Bob Dylan’s archive of 6,000 items, including lyrics, correspondence, recordings, films and photos, reports [the New York *Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/music/bob-dylans-secret-archive.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0). The news was announced by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, who jointly acquired the archive for an amount estimated to be between $15 million and $20 million. According to the *Times*, which got a preview of the archive, “it is clear that the archives are deeper and more vast than even most Dylan experts could imagine, promising untold insight into the songwriter’s work.” The Dylan archive will be housed on public display in Tulsa alongside a copy of the Declaration of Independence, a collection of Native American art, and the papers of Woody Guthrie, an early hero of Dylan’s. In a statement, Dylan lauded praised the acquisition and the choice to put his work on display alongside that of his longtime idol. “I’m glad that my archives, which have been collected all these years, have finally found a home and are to be included with the works of Woody Guthrie and especially alongside all the valuable artifacts from the Native American Nations. 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