The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopened its popular Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian exhibition in time for the Center’s free Holiday Open House, Saturday, December 5, 2015. On view since May 4, 2013, in the lower gallery of the Center’s Cody Firearms Museum, the exhibit […]
Treasures from Our WestMulti-bladed folding knifeSmithsonian’s National Firearms Collection Although this object is not in our own collection, it is indeed a treasure. At the time this post was published, it was on loan to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum with 63 other objects from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of […]
Free admission for all participants presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket on September 27, 2014. On Saturday, September 27, 2014, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, opens its doors free of charge to ticketholders for Smithsonian magazine’s tenth annual Museum Day Live! A nationwide event, Museum Day Live! offers free admission […]
True or false? Pioneers like these portrayed in the Center’s painting The Road to Oregon (The Trail Through the South Pass Had Been Worn Deep With the Wheel Tracks of the Covered Wagons), 1933, by W.H.D. Koerner, made their way along the Oregon Trail in covered wagons called “Conestogas.” Wait a minute—is this a trick question? It […]
Past Exhibition: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier April 10 – August 8, 2010 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Kasebier was a cooperative exhibition with the Photographic History Collection of the National Museum of American History with the Smithsonian Institution. Since its appearance at the Buffalo Bill Center of the […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2013 The Journey Continues: More Firearms from the Smithsonian (Click here to read part one) A three-cylinder revolver. Sliding breech chamber. Revolving firearm that uses a chain. A sundial. Two cylinders, a central axis pin, and two triggers. Blunderbuss. Turkey, Albania, Germany, Japan, North Africa, France, England, and America. As […]