Welcome to The Museum of the American West, the only institution which celebrates the different groups of people who utilized the critical geography of what is now central Wyoming to shape the American West.

The Pioneers and their descendants; the Eastern Shoshone; the Northern Arapaho; and other diverse cultures have inhabited for generations the valleys of the Sweetwater and Wind Rivers, beneath the jagged peaks of the Wind River Mountains and the Great South Pass.

The Museum of the American West is an umbrella for a series of museums that are planned or currently being developed at our large site. These include the Pioneer Museum, the Pushroot Living History Village, the Native Americans of the Central Plains and Rockies Museum and living history complex, and the Lander Children’s Museum.

Native American Dance interpretive events are held every Wednesday evening in July.