Cody Culture Club: Lock, Stock, & Local
February 13, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm MST
Lock, Stock, & Local: Guns of the Cody Firearms Museum
At Buffalo Bill Center of the West
720 Sheridan Avenue
February 13, 2025
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Join us on select Thursdays January through April for Cody Culture Club. You’ll enjoy appetizers and cash bar at every program. If you love Cody, you’re part of the Club! Tickets for individual programs are $25 each, with discounts available with our package deal; details and online ticketing at centerofthewest.org/codycultureclub.
For our February 13 program, Danny Michael, the Robert W. Woodruff Curator, shares the history of the Cody Firearms Museum’s collection and how it came to be in Cody, Wyoming. Danny gives special emphasis to firearms with a local connection, and to new artifacts the museum has recently acquired.
About our speaker
Danny Michael is the Robert W. Woodruff Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Prior to that he was the museum’s Associate Curator and worked as a Collections Assistant at the Frazier History Museum.
In addition to his ongoing curatorial and research work, he co-founded the Arsenals of History symposium that brings together museums and firearms historians from around the world, as well as its corresponding publications. Michael serves on the editorial board for ARMAX: The Journal of Contemporary Arms and has written for that journal as well as Arms & Armour: Journal of the Royal Armouries. He has appeared on the Outdoor and Sportsman channels for historic firearms segments and co-hosts the museum’s podcast, History Unloaded, with the Cody Firearms Museum’s former curator, Ashley Hlebinsky.
During the Cody Firearms Museum’s 2018 – 2019 renovation, Michael worked in lead roles to plan and implement the new galleries, and his main task was to select each of the 4,200 firearms currently on display from the museum’s collection. He holds a master’s degree in Public History from the University of Louisville and a bachelor’s in History from Cedarville University. His research interests include military small arms and the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
Thank you to our sponsors
Blair Hotels Carlene Lebous & Harris Haston NextGen Park County Simpson Gallagher Gallery 
Upcoming Cody Culture Club events
• March 13: Dead & Gone in Wyoming: Mysterious Tales of True Crime in the Cowboy State
• April 10: Common Ground
