About The Museum

Cowboy Hall of Fame? Just call us The Cowboy.

A cowboy is so much more than the stereotypes. And so is this Museum. This is the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; America’s premier institution of Western history, art and culture. You might have grown up calling us the Cowboy Hall of Fame, and that’s great. We’re the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum now. But you can just call us The Cowboy.

We preserve and interpret the evolving history and cultures of the American West and share that story with visitors from all over the world. And it’s a history worth preserving, because it’s our collective history.

The story of the American West is the story of America itself; one of grit and determination, as diverse as its many landscapes.