During renovation, we will not be offering school tours. Please check back with us once the second floor reopens for an engaging  and unique experience for your students.

Over the past 17 years, we have changed cases and altered two smaller galleries on the second floor but have never undertaken a comprehensive renovation on this floor. Not only is it simply time to do so, but also this second floor renovation resumes the narrative thread from where the first floor renovation narrative stopped.

Yes! The bronc ride is a beloved attraction, and it will be updated and included.

It became clear to us as we undertook our research that the horse is many things to many people – and not just women. The horse can be a partner, a competitor, a muse, a lifesaver – and more: It’s Never Just a Horse.

The entire second floor will be given over to our new Kit Moncrief Galleries, including our new It’s Never Just a Horse exhibition. We are taking the idea of the horse, and the horse itself, as our springboard to talk about those women who are shaping the West and changing the world.  We have determined…

This is a 5.5 million dollar undertaking; naming opportunities are still available!

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We have engaged the architectural firm, Projectiles, for our second floor overall design:. They designed our first floor, including the innovative, 2-story mobile. Additionally, we have engaged the Projects Group  and Bennett Benner Partners.