Cody Firearms Museum Programs

Our Cody Firearms Museum reopened in summer 2019 after a full renovation

Although it is essential to keep the museum’s firearms securely mounted in fortified display cases, under carefully controlled climatic conditions, it is also important to bring them into the closest possible contact with our visitors. To do so, the Cody Firearms Museum uses interactive computer programs and presentations by firearms authorities, historians, collectors, and skilled craftsmen/artists in the galleries and other accessible areas.

The new museum includes firearms simulators so that visitors may experience firearms safety, proper firearms handling, other tips of the range, and the mechanics of firearms and ammunition.

The new museum’s military section, the Cost of War, includes the written and audio oral histories of soldiers, and serves as an ongoing oral history space for current veterans to record their own stories for the Center to keep and share in the future.

The museum includes interactive media that address well-known firearms of the American West and tracks them from design to distribution, and a movie in the hunting cabin explores the history of hunting from fur trapping to the conservation movement.

Guided tours during the summer season highlight themes and highlights of the Cody Firearms Museum.