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Museum Minute: The Start of Abercrombie and Fitch
Most people know Abercrombie and Fitch as a clothing store. But Ashley Hlebinsky, the curator emeritus of the Cody Firearms Museums, said it started out much differently. “What they don’t […]
Museum Minute: The 1910 Silencer
The Cody Firearms Museum has one of the only three 1910 silencers that survived. It’s on the Springfield Model 1903 Bolt Action Rifle. Silencers, also known as suppressors, were invented […]
Museum Minute: Curators Don’t Always Know Everything
Museum curators are expected to have an in-depth knowledge of everything in the collections. “We try to put on a very good appearance of that when we give tours,” said […]
Museum Minute: How One Object Can Tell A Bigger Story
What can a wagon jack tell us? (A wagon jack is a tool used to change out tires.) Well, for the story of Buffalo Bill Cody it depicts a time […]
Museum Minute: A Mantle Clock Symbolizes a Life Before the Wild West for Buffalo Bill
One of the oldest objects in the Buffalo Bill Museum collection is a Waterbury mantle clock that belonged to Buffalo Bill Cody’s mother Mary. Jeremy Johnston, the curator of the […]
