Canceled: Smithsonian Museum Day April 4, 2020 The Buffalo Bill Center of the West usually participates in Smithsonian Museum Day, however the Smithsonian Institution has canceled all of public events. Statement from the Smithsonian: Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day 2020 will not take place on April 4. As a public health precaution, the Smithsonian is postponing […]
For the vast majority of museums and visitors, Smithsonian magazine’s annual Museum Day is a great opportunity: Museums get exposure, and visitors get free admission to a thousand or so museums throughout America. For the Buffalo Bill Center of the West? It’s a case of good news/bad news. The irony is that periodically Museum Day takes […]
Author and naturalist Doug Coffman sheds new light and perspective on one of the country’s most historic wildlife dioramas at the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The story is the subject of a 2013 documentary book written by Coffman. The free lecture takes place April 7, […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopens its popular Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian, just in time for the Center’s free Holiday Open House, Saturday, December 5. On view since May 4, 2013, in the lower gallery of the Center’s Cody Firearms Museum, the exhibit now […]
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 […]
Past Exhibition: Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian Cody Firearms Museum The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, hosted Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian from May 2013 through April 2018. The National Firearms Collection at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History was established in 1876 […]