The mission of the Museum of the Mountain West (MMW) is to educate children and adults in the history and culture of the American West through the collecting, historic preservation, stewardship, restoration, and display of historical buildings and artifacts.
Museum Hours · Visit this 6-acre property with a tour guide or on a self-guided tour. · Directions
Historic buildings include a general store with Post Office, Carriage Works, jail, Chinese laundry, gunsmith, hotel, saloon, schoolhouse, teacherage, two period houses, old cabins, and a beautifully restored German Lutheran Church from 1913 that is used for weddings and as an event center.
You can visit doctors and dentists offices from before and after the turn of the last century, and see the instruments and medicines they used. Visit an old mercantile, general store, and dry goods emporium, all filled with authentic merchandise, right down to spools of thread and bottles of bitters.
Let’s take a walk down “Main Street” and view the displays inside our main building.
