This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including your stories. Send them to Our American Stories.com. They're some of our favorites.

One of the things we love to do is take you around the country and pursue Americans' hobbies,

Americans' quirks, and also museums of all kind from presidential museums, down to the arcane

and the fun, which brings us to Johnny Beyer, who's the executive director

of the Banjo Museum in Oklahoma, sharing with us some banjo history. The museum was born

out of a jazz banjo festival in Guthrie, Oklahoma. This festival eventually came to be a museum

which opened in 1998.

In 2009, they moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City,

where they have close to 400 banjos on exhibit.

Here's Johnny with the story of the banjo.

The most popular part of the museum visitors' experience

tends to relate to things that they can relate to immediately.

Most of our visitors are not banjo players.

So when we can do something that ties the banjo directly to something that they have an already soft spark in their heart for,

we've hit a home run. Some of our exhibits included Steve Martin. Of course, Steve Martin, everyone

loves as a comic and an actor and a playwright and all these things. He's a wonderful superstar, but he's

also a great banjo player. So we have, right now, we have one of the instruments that Steve had

donated to our museum. And when people see Steve Martin's picture and the banjo that he gave

to our museum, all of a sudden they say, hey, I know that guy and he's cool, so the banjo must be cool too.

I mean, that's the kind of thought process we want to get through people's heads.

We just closed an exhibit not too long ago about Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets.

Now, if you're a Muppet fan, you would have remembered Kermit the

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