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Come in your best Western or Halloween get-up Trick-or-treat through Prosperity Junction and outdoor Town Square Explore the maker space and let your imagination run wild HalloWest Crafts • Face Painting • Fast-draw Target Practice • Western Dancing • Meet Chester Scissortail, the Museum’s Mascot • Historic Re-enactors • Candy-Free Treats Available • Western Stories …

Homeschool Day

Enjoy an exciting day of learning and exploring! See galleries filled with Western art and artifacts. Explore Liichokoshkomo’, an outdoor interactive, multi-cultural education space that introduces the American West through science, technology, engineering, arts, math and citizenship in an immersive hands-on, minds-on environment. Students can: Be sure to visit our temporary exhibitions Black Cowboys: An American …

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Event Series Rodeo Hall of Fame Weekend

Rodeo Hall of Fame Weekend

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Rodeo Historical Society host the annual Rodeo Hall of Fame Weekend celebrating rodeo legends’ induction into the Rodeo Hall of Fame as well as the Ben Johnson Memorial Award and Tad Lucas Memorial Award recipients.

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Event Series Signature Tour

Signature Tour

From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working …

Curatorial Conversations: Before the Cattle Run: Enslaved and Free Black Cowboys

Join Ronald Davis, curator of the exhibition Black Cowboys, in exploring the use of enslaved labor on ranches and plantations in the U.S. South. He will trace the labor of enslaved herds people from Colonial South Carolina to Texas until the Civil War and their lived experiences. Davis will also share about the closing of …

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