It turns out the Cody Firearms Museum does not only collect real guns, it also has at least one toy gun. A Thompson Submachine BB Gun, to be more specific. […]
Museum Minute: The American Cowboy
It’s well known that President Theodore Roosevelt helped shape the American West as we know it today. But the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, Jeremy Johnston, said Roosevelt, along […]
Museum Minute: Artistic Expression Through A Tin Cup
During the Reservation Era, roughly from the 1870s to the 1920s, Native Americans were required to move onto allotments of land. Rebecca West, the curator of the Plains Indian Museum, […]
Native American High School Students Create Their Own Exhibit
For the past 15 years, the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West welcomes high school students from the St. Labre Indian School located in Montana. […]
Museum Minute: A Postcard to Charles Russell
It’s normal for librarians at the McCracken Research Library to find postcards, photos and other pieces of paper tucked away in a book. But it isn’t every day that you […]
Museum Minute: A Lone Bear
Back in 2015, when Karen McWhorter just started her position as curator of the Whitney Western Art Museum, she was interviewed for a magazine. One of the questions: what was […]