Museums45.6594° N, 111.0550° W
Bozeman, MT
A compact museum tracing thousands of years of information technology, from writing and mechanical calculation to early computers, robotics, and space-era hardware.
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- Museums45.8910° N, 104.5465° W
Ekalaka, MT
Montana’s first county museum, with important dinosaur fossils, local-history collections, and displays tied to the fossil-rich badlands of southeastern Montana.
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- Museums48.0098° N, 106.4214° W
Fort Peck, MT
An interpretive center beside Fort Peck Dam combining Missouri River ecology, dam construction, and paleontology—including fossils from the surrounding badlands.
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- Museums47.3249° N, 106.9090° W
Jordan, MT
A small eastern Montana museum with local-history collections and significant dinosaur fossils from the Hell Creek Formation surrounding Jordan.
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- Museums47.1251° N, 104.6912° W
Glendive, MT
A large private dinosaur-and-fossil museum presenting its exhibits through a biblical young-earth creationist framework. That interpretation differs from mainstream scientific dating of Earth and the fossil record.
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- Museums48.3604° N, 107.8678° W
Malta, MT
A fossil-focused museum and field station featuring dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals from northern Montana, with seasonal digs and preparation work.
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- Museums48.5531° N, 109.6987° W
Havre, MT
A local museum with regional history, archaeological material, and dinosaur fossils from north-central Montana, including finds associated with the nearby Judith River Formation.
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- Museums47.6800° N, 114.1160° W
Polson, MT
A sprawling Americana collection with hundreds of thousands of objects, historic buildings, aircraft, vehicles, machinery, homemade inventions, and an Area 51-themed display.
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- Museums47.9759° N, 112.3115° W
Bynum, MT
A paleontology center known for hands-on field programs, fossil preparation, and a long skeletal display of the sauropod Seismosaurus/Diplodocus.
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- Museums46.5872° N, 112.0160° W
Helena, MT
Montana’s major state-history museum and collections center, newly opened in 2025 with expanded exhibits covering the state’s people, archaeology, art, and material culture.
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- Museums46.9186° N, 114.0836° W
Missoula, MT
A small aviation museum devoted to mountain flying, smokejumping, and regional aircraft history, with historic planes and equipment near Missoula’s airport.
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- Museums47.8246° N, 110.6669° W
Fort Benton, MT
A large collection of homestead, agricultural, industrial, and transportation machinery documenting how people worked the northern plains.
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- Museums45.6589° N, 111.0447° W
Bozeman, MT
A major paleontology museum with one of the world’s important dinosaur collections, including extensive Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops material from Montana.
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- Museums45.3069° N, 111.9675° W
Nevada City, MT
A reconstructed and preserved mining-era town filled with relocated historic buildings, period artifacts, and living-history programming just west of Virginia City.
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- Museums47.8124° N, 112.1836° W
Choteau, MT
A small museum complex combining local history with dinosaur fossils, paleontology exhibits, historic buildings, and displays tied to the Rocky Mountain Front.
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- Museums48.3606° N, 107.8671° W
Malta, MT
A local museum mixing homestead and regional history with fossil displays from an area famous for Late Cretaceous discoveries.
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- Museums46.7927° N, 105.3130° W
Terry, MT
A small-town museum and photography gallery with homestead artifacts, Evelyn Cameron images, and odd local relics including a famously elaborate steam-heated outhouse.
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- Museums48.5632° N, 110.5550° W
Rudyard, MT
A restored railroad depot and small-town museum complex combining homestead artifacts, vintage vehicles, local history, and dinosaur material from the Hi-Line.
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- Museums48.7978° N, 114.8887° W
Fortine, MT
A private museum with a collection of historic military aircraft in an unusually remote setting. Visits are by advance appointment, and directions are supplied through the museum.
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- Private land, view only
- Museums46.4352° N, 109.8313° W
Harlowton, MT
A two-building local museum mixing fossils, a full-size dinosaur display, ranch and railroad artifacts, and an old horse-drawn hearse among its eclectic collections.
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- Museums45.2941° N, 111.9420° W
Virginia City, MT
A territorial gold-rush town preserved as a National Historic Landmark, packed with original storefronts, boardwalks, saloons, and museum collections.
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