Past Exhibitions

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West creates and hosts some extraordinary exhibitions. Here is a sampling of several from the recent past.

Advertising the Frontier Myth: Poster Art of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

James Bama’s Photographs: Portraits of the West

Alfred Jacob Miller: Revisiting the Rendezvous—In Scotland and Today

Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River

Italy’s Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma: Photographs by Gabrielle Saveri

Yellowstone: For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People

Thomas D. Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild

What Lies Beneath: Exploring Yellowstone Lake’s Mysterious Vents

Eight Seconds: Black Cowboys in America

The Equestrian West: Photographs by William Shepley

Whoop It Up! Celebrating 100 Years of the Cody Stampede

Wyoming in Wyoming: Portraits and Stories of Women Who Shape the West

Native Nations Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Native Arts

Yellowstone Discovered: William Henry Jackson’s Lost Prints Reveal the Park for America

Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West

Charlie’s Circle: The Art and Influence of Charles M. Russell

Showstoppers: William E. Weiss Purchase Award Winners

GLOCK Makes History: The Birth of the Polymer Handgun Market

Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian

Cody to the World: Celebrating 100 Years at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Out West Where the North Begins: Harold McCracken in Alaska and the Arctic, 1916–1928

That Day: Pictures in the American West: Photographs by Laura Wilson

Yellowstone: Wilderness in a Box—The Art of James Prosek

Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations

Scots in the American West

Developing Stories: The Photography of James Bama

Textured Portraits: The Ken Blackbird Collection

Adornment in the West: The American Indian as Artist

Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley

Wyoming Grasslands: Photographs by Michael Berman and William Sutton

Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian

Pronghorn Passage

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives

Karl Bodmer Prints: Images of North America

National Geographic’s Greatest Photographs of the American West

The West of Thomas Moran

Dressed Just Right

Wes Adams Estate Firearms Collection

Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam

African Perspectives: A Tribute to Vision

Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation

Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: Arts and Crafts from the Heart Mountain Internment Camp

Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art

Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Kasëbier

An Artist with the Corps of Discovery: One Hundred Paintings Illustrating the Journals of Lewis and Clark

A Place Called Thorofare: People, Wilderness & Wildlife Management

John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition: Mammals of North America

Unbroken Spirit: The Wild Horse in the American Landscape