The centre’s subject and namesake has an open invitation to come anytime, although his absence seems perfectly in character, said Steven Jenkins, the centre’s director. Oddly, Dylan was in Tulsa three weeks ago for a date on his concert tour, sandwiched in between Oklahoma City and Little Rock.
“I don’t want to put words in his mouth,” Jenkins said. “I can only guess at his reasoning. Maybe he would find it embarrassing.” It’s unusual for a living figure — Dylan is due to turn 81 on May 24 — to have a museum devoted to him, but such is the shadow he has cast over popular music since his emergence in the early 1960s.
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