Educators After Hours
Educators and a guest are invited to experience all that the National Cowboy Museum offers teachers and students! Museum education staff, curators and docents showcase available educational resources, preview student …
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Date with the Duke: Stagecoach (1939)
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach set to leave Tonto, New Mexico, find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in …
Holiday Wine-Down
Relax from the stresses of the holidays! Visit the Museum for a Holiday Wine-Down painting class under instruction from Wine & Palette. Inspired by the nocturnal paintings featured in the …
Read the West Book Club: Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name
When the British, Spanish and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and …
Fingerprint Snowflake
Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create a different make-and-take craft each day. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last. Make a snowflake with …
Kids Take Over the Cowboy: outLAWman
In the American West, on the fringes of the frontier, the lines were often blurred and blurry between the law-abiding, lawless and law-enforcing individuals. Create your own reversible sheriff badge …
Sunday Spotlight: “Bonnie Parker” Purse
The National Cowboy Museum is the repository of a purse allegedly belonging to Bonnie Parker. Bonnie Parker, of course, was one of America's most infamous outlaws during the 1930s. Hear …
Curator Conversations: outLAWman
Join Museum Curator Michael Grauer in examining the often-thin line separating the outlaw from the lawman, i.e. the lawless from the law-enforcing in the American West. In fact, many outlaws …
Read the West Book Club: Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade school and Smith College together, spent nine months on a grand tour of Europe in 1910 and then, bored with society luncheons and …
Late Night at the Museum: Fun with Forensics!
Enjoy an evening learning about forensic techniques. Kids will discover fascinating facts about fingerprints and try their hand at powdering for prints and learn how to create an impression casting. …
