This museum is part of the Buffalo Bill Center. The displays are very well done and they do a nice job of explaining the area's natural development. Not a huge amount of interactive displays, but the ones they have serve as good teaching tools. Great museum for the kids.
I thought that the way this is laid-out was excellent. Basing the flow of the museum on the elevation of the surrounding land, starting "up top" and working your way down, was an inventive way of explaining life in the Wyoming northwest.
It is a wonderful place to start before going into Yellowstone.The museum helps one understand the different regions at each altitude so you know what animals to look for.Great for children...fun with an animal passport program.Very informative and educational.Love going here.
This starts with a walk through the animals and vegetation to be found above 10,000 feet and moves on down. There are interactive installations, movies, all kinds of things to interest people of all ages.
This museum is included in the ticket price of the Bill Cody Center for the West. The only natural history museum we've ever seen that compares to this is the Smithsonian in DC. The attention to local terrain and environment is fascinating. Don't pass this up! Buy your tickets online and save!!
Our favorite part of the museum. Always something new to discover. The kids love getting the embossed stamps on their booklet, and we all love the Yellowstone National Park connection. So worth going...we LOVE IT!
Plenty of fun stuff for all ages about all different types of animals, their habitat and the broad natural history of the region. These tie in nicely with a trip to Yellowstone before or after Cody.TEACHERS NOTE: They seem to have a regular program where one of their docents and an assistant will go through the museum with an I-Pad and basically conduct a live tour of the museum as a class, asking questions, etc via the internet. This is a GREAT idea, and an opportunity for distance learning. Well worth checking out, and emulating in other top quality museums. While your local teacher could possibly do something like this if they visited, the BBCOW staff know the exhibits and are able to keep things moving along to hold interest and ask questions. Plus a different teacher may help. Again, a great innovation and opportunity. Teachers, check it out!!!
So informative. I read everything. It was great to have checked it out before heading into Yellowstone to understand the animals and history of the park better.
You walk down a spiral display area and the flora and fauna are for the corresponding elevation. Like walking from a mountaintop to sea level. Then they start the underground, archeology level.
Living in Wyoming, this museum didn't have much of an impact on me as the rest. If you are from a metropolitan area, or just from an area outside of the west you should spend some time here.