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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 Park

2010 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

Milwaukee Railroad, Engine 36, Moving snow, Ringling, MT, 1942. 
 By Warren McGee
 MHS Photograph Archives #Pac97-93.11087.

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.