Museum of the Rockies

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The Museum of the Rockies' collections focus on the physical and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains and the people and animals who have lived there.

The Museum of the Rockies preserves and tells the stories of Montana and the Northern Rockies; educating visitors about the region's rich history, which includes its paleontological roots. The museum's collections have grown to include 300,000 objects that cover more than 500,000,000 years of history.

The museum offers symposiums allowing Native Americans whose tribes called the region home, to share their oral histories with visitors. In 2005, the Museum became an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, which provided the museum greater access to the collections and programs of that institute.