Traveling Exhibits
For more information about these exhibits or to procure them, please call the Museum Program at (406) 444-4719, or write to P.O. Box 201201, 225 North Roberts Street, Helena, Montana 59620-1201
Land of Many Stories
The People & Histories of Glacier National Park2010 will mark the centennial of Glacier Park, and the Montana Historical Society, in collaboration with Glacier National Park-National Park Service, has mounted a major exhibition illuminating one of Montana's cultural and natural wonders. The traveling exhibit - paralleling the theme and content of the major exhibition displayed concurrently at the Montana Historical Society - is comprised of reproductions of historic photographs, graphics, and accompanying interpretive text. The exhibit explores the many ways people have used and enjoyed the area from pre-European contact to present day, and will illustrate though much has changed over the years a great deal remains the same for today's visitors. People still enjoy Glacier's magnificent pristine wilderness following the same routes as those who have traveled before. This exhibit is produced in partnership with Glacier National Park and is made possible by the generosity of the Glacier National Park Fund and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation.
On Track: The Railroad Photographs of Warren McGee
Jointly sponsored by the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, the Montana Department of Transportation, and the Montana Historical Society, On Track: The Railroad Photographs of Warren McGee features the stunning photographs taken by Warren McGee over a 60-year period, beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1990s. The exhibit celebrates the photograph collection as it chronicles and pays tribute to trains in 20th century Montana and the surrounding region.
Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The World of Evelyn Cameron
For more than thirty years spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Evelyn Jephson Cameron photographed the landscape, wildlife, and people of eastern Montana. Evelyn took thousands of photographs of her world?the rural life, badlands, and ranch characters of the real west. Over 40 large format prints made from Cameron's original glass-plate and nitrate negatives are featured in this exhibit, which is based on the book Photographing Montana by Donna Lucey, a former editor with Time-Life Books. Both in Lucey's book and in the exhibit, Cameron's own words? culled from 30 years of her diaries and biography?are used to reveal Evelyn's personal feelings behind her photographs. Photographing Montana offers an intimate view of rural life on the Northern Plains.
