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Type
  
Interpretive Center

Phone
  
+1 307-455-2284

Website
  
Official website

Location
  
909 West Ramshorn St. Dubois, Wyoming, United States

Address
  
909 W Rams Horn St, Dubois, WY 82513, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–6PMTuesday9AM–6PMWednesday9AM–6PMThursday9AM–6PMFriday9AM–6PMSaturday9AM–6PMSundayClosedMondayClosed

Similar
  
National Bighorn Sheep Int, Fremont County Pioneer, Museum of the American, Riverton Museum, Tie Hack Memorial

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The Dubois Museum is a 3,850-square-foot (358 m2) museum preserving and interpreting the history of the Upper Wind River Valley and is located in the town of Dubois, Wyoming on U.S. Route 26 along the Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway. The museum offers interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, and special events.

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Exhibits

The center contains several permanent exhibits.

  • The Natural History of the Upper Wind River Valley featuring displays including the geology of the Wind River including the Chugwater Formation, gastroliths, Turritella agates, and the flora and fauna including the native cutthroat trout and bighorn sheep
  • The Mountain Shoshone, known as the Sheepeaters, and how they lived as interpreted from the steatite tools, horn bows crafted from bighorn sheep horn, and petroglyphs left from ancestors
  • The Charlie Moore Collection presenting artifacts of the CM Ranch, the oldest continuously operating guest ranch in Wyoming.
  • the Scandinavian loggers (tie hacks) who cut railroad ties for the nation's railroads in the national forests near Dubois as presented in the Wind River Tie-Hack Gallery
  • The US Cavalry in Wyoming
  • The homesteaders who settled in the late 1800s

    • Educational tours are also offered to area geological, archaeological, and historical sites of Sheepeater bighorn sheep traps, Plains Indians teepee rings, petroglyphs, and cabins from the “tie hack” era.

    References

    Dubois Museum Wikipedia
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