NOTE: The Smithsonian has postponed their Earth Optimism event; therefore the Center has also postponed our event as it was tied to theirs. March 14, 2020 10 a.m.–4 p.m. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, and from the Bighorn Basin, we invite you to join us for an Earth Optimism Teen […]
Join paleoanthropologist Dr. Richard Potts from the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, who presents Innovation and Environmental Disruption during the Origin of Homo Sapiens May 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium. In studies published in 2018 in the journal Science, […]
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 […]
Explore the history of nearly every geologic time period in ancient Wyoming at a free lecture and book signing July 28 from 12:15 − 1:15 p.m. at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Combining paleontology, geology, and artistry, authors Kirk Johnson and Will Clyde examine Wyoming as it is in present day and as it […]
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 […]
Beginning Wednesday, September 16, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West moves to its fall schedule—open 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily. This schedule is in effect through October 31. At the same time, the Center’s popular Draper Museum Raptor Experience also moves to its fall/winter schedule. The live birds of prey are on view […]