We need your help!
Participate in our study to earn 25% off at the museum store, plus tons of opportunities to win prizes!
The Wyoming State Museum is launching a project to evaluate our social impact, and we are seeking 100 individuals to participate. We believe that our exhibits, educational offerings, and programs make a difference in our community, but we need people like you to join the study so we can have data to support this. We hope you will sign up!
If selected to participate, you will visit the museum with at least one friend or family member three different times between Mar 3 and Aug 30, 2025. You will then complete a 30-minute survey to share how your experiences at the museum impacted various outcomes.
We need 100 people to participate, so to sweeten the deal we are offering lots of incentives! Every participant will receive:
- 25% off at our museum store during each of their three visits.
- An invitation to attend a behind-the-scenes tour of our museum collection to be scheduled in Fall 2025.
- A gift bag including museum swag and a free taco coupon from Taco Johns
- Early access to tickets for our April 19th “Taps & Traps: A Mountain Man Survival Night”
Plus, each visit during the study period will get you one raffle ticket towards a number of exciting prizes, including:
- 2025 State Parks Annual Pass
- $50 gift card to Black Tooth Brewing Co
- $25 gift card to Sanford's Grub & Pub
- $50 gift card to SCHEELS
- Gift card to Westby Edge Brewing
- Texas Roadhouse "Dinner for Two" up to $30
- 5 beer tickets at Blue Raven Brewery
- 4 tickets to the Cheyenne Depot Museum
By participating, you'll help us demonstrate the significant value our museum brings to the community, as highlighted in this MOMSI Aggregate Findings Report. Your input will strengthen our advocacy efforts and benefit cultural institutions across the state. Together, we can showcase the vital role museums play in enriching our society!
Family Day: I Heart Art
Saturday, February 1
10 am - 2 pm
We heart art, and you should, too!
The Wyoming State Museum is kicking off your Valentine's festivities with “I Heart Art,” a Family Day that gives kids of all ages an opportunity to tap into their creativity and explore the many ways they can bring art into their everyday lives.
This free event features a huge variety of crafts and activities to bring families closer to the museum collections and inspire them to learn more about the world around them. Kids will learn about historic photography, make valentines cards, create still life drawings from museum artifacts, contribute to a finger paint mural, and design their own sculptures out of wikki stix and pipe cleaners.
Our partners at the Cheyenne Animal Shelter will be onsite to provide an educational art activity and Wyoming State Parks will set up a “Plein Air Indoors” station where guests can use watercolors to help paint a landscape. In addition to all these art stations, kids can let out some energy by attending hourly “Wyoming Wiggles” dance parties at 11 am, 12 pm, and 1 pm!
New this month: Register AND attend Family Day to be entered into a raffle to win a Texas Roadhouse $40 meal for two!
 LAST CHANCE: Call for artists
Enter to create the artwork for Cheyenne's 2025 Día de los Muertos Celebrations
Deadline extended to January 19, 2025
There's still time to apply for our CALL FOR LOCAL ARTISTS! Apply online and you may be selected to create original promotional artwork for our 2025 community Día de los Muertos celebrations. The winner will receive a $2000 award to complete a finished product in partnership with our Día de los Muertos committee. Once completed, the artwork will be used in event promotion throughout the region and will be seen on park banners, posters, Facebook and Instagram posts, and more.
Thank you to our 2024 funders and sponsors!
2024 has been an amazing year at the Wyoming State Museum, and it’s all thanks to our amazing partners and funders! They supported new collections storage drawers, brought the beer to our annual 21+ party, helped us ship educational trunks around the state, sponsored cultural celebrations of Indigenous People's Day and Día de los Muertos, and so much more! Join us in giving a big thank you to these generous sponsors for their contributions this year.
- Blue Raven Brewing Co
- BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
- Capitol Lumber Company
- Heinrich Marketing
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions
- SCHEELS of Johnstown, CO
- Smile Doctors of Cheyenne
- The Denver Foundation Greenwood Fund
- Upsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma
- Wyoming Arts Alliance
- Wyoming Arts Council
- Wyoming Community Foundation
- Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund
- Wyoming Humanities
- Wyoming Wildlife Foundation
New exhibit now open!
Now through March 29, 2025.
For a limited time, photographer Robert Frank’s images of Wyoming will be displayed at the Museum.
Robert Frank is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of photography. He redefined the aesthetic of still and moving images via his pictures and films. After receiving his first Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955, Frank embarked on a two-year trip across America, taking over 28,000 pictures. Eighty-three were ultimately published in Frank’s groundbreaking monograph, The Americans. The exhibition will feature images from Wyoming during his trip, some previously unpublished.
This exhibit was done in partnership with the Wyoming State Archives and the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation.
Healthy U at the Wyoming State Museum
Saturdays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm
February 8 - March 22
Healthy U is a workshop series for people who want to play a more active and productive role in managing their health. Any adult with a chronic health condition, who lives with or cares for someone with a health consideration, or who wants to learn the skills in this workshop is invited to attend. Over the course of six weeks, Healthy U participants will learn valuable skills to help them take control of their condition and live happier, healthier lives.
Healthy U workshops are led by trained peer facilitators. In Healthy U, participants learn:
- Techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, pain, and isolation
- Appropriate exercise for improving and maintaining strength, flexibility, and endurance
- Appropriate use of medications
- Communicating effectively with family, friends, caregivers, and healthcare providers
- Nutrition
- Decision-making
- Action planning
- How to evaluate new treatments
If you have questions, you can contact Healthy U staff at (307) 766-2765 or [email protected]
 Stay up to date on everything happening at the museum by following our Instagram and Facebook accounts! You'll get to see special looks into our collections, upcoming events, behind-the-scenes museum work, and more! Click the links below to follow us, or search our handle @wyomingstatemuseum.
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