Museums in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park features a museum collection and archives of national and international significance which document and help to interpret the cultural and natural history of the world's first national park.
Consisting of over 200,000 objects; it reflects the efforts of individuals who, throughout the park's history, have generated and assembled collections of artifacts, natural science specimens and their associated data from the disciplines of history, archeology, ethnology, biology, geology and paleontology. These collections include wildlife specimens representing park fauna; a herbarium containing a comprehensive representation of park flora; rocks and minerals; vertebrate, invertebrate and botanical fossils; historic vehicles, hotel furnishings, souvenirs, and other artifacts pertaining to Yellowstone's history; objects documenting the history of the National Park ranger; original works of art by Thomas Moran and other noted artists; and over 80,000 historic photographs, including William Henry Jackson originals with his own notations. Yellowstone National Park's historic vehicle collection currently includes thirty horse-drawn and motorized vehicles. They range from stagecoaches operated by the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company and Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company (later the Yellowstone-Western Stage Company), to early YPT Co. touring cars, buses, and service trucks, to National Park Service (NPS) scooters and a fire engine. Also represented in the collection are numerous human-powered vehicles, to include fire hose carts and handcarts, or "Molly's" used by hotel maids and bellboys. Thousands of other collections made in Yellowstone National Park since its creation in 1872 reside in universities and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
The story of Yellowstone continues at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The Center's Plains Indian Museum tells the story of early humans in the area and the collections of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art provide visitors with artists' interpretations of Yellowstone's landscape and unusual features.
(307) 587-4771
The Museum of the Rockies
The story of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem begins with dinosaurs, paleontology and geology. The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana features exhibits on these and other topics and houses the area's only planetarium for visitors who are interested in taking "the long view" of Yellowstone and its place on the planet.
(406) 994-3466
National Wildlife Museum
At the National Wildlife Art Museum in Jackson, Wyoming, park visitors can see Yellowstone wildlife depicted in bronze and on canvas.
(307) 733-5771
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