The Buffalo Bill Firearms Museum in Cody, WY is Heaven for me. (Lots of Pictures)

[Miami_JBT]

I spent the last two days there and my God.... the things they have. Especially the things not on display but in the vault. And more importantly, the records they have. They have Winchester records all the way to 1873! I was a kid in a candy shop. They truly have some amazing collections and the folks running it are 110% solid pro-gun folks.

I spent the morning in the lower level pulling out drawer after drawer after drawer of guns. The first flow too has amazing displays.

The sense of Americana in all five of their museums is amazingly awesome since it isn't just the Firearms Museum.

They have the Western Art Museum, the Plains Indian Museum, the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum, and the Museum of Natural History.

Theodore Roosevelt's Big Medicine.

Some interesting comments left by other folks.

Another part of the trip, was out in the Wind River Reservation, shooting my S&W Revolvers.

Enjoyed the rodeo and the sights too.

 

[huthike]

Been there once - want and need to return. Thanks for the great pics.

 

[Rudi]

What a fantastic collection!

 

[Gamecock]

The art museum is fabulous, too.

 

[ameridaddy]

I love the scale of the museums' exhibition spaces. They have the intimacy - sorta grandma's attic feel - of the old Smithsonian of my childhood, and don't have the giant shopping mall-like spaces of too many more modern museums.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[rockquarry]

My wife and I spent two days there last month. In addition to all there was to see, we got a two hour private tour of the gun stuff. A good bit of this was hands-on (with white gloves, of course) down in the vault in the basement. We drove about twelve-hundred miles to Cody and did other things (like Yellowstone), but I think the five museums alone would have been worth the drive.

 

[Rpg]

My only trip to that museum was in the 1950’s when I was 7 and we took a road trip to Yellowstone.

I don’t remember multiple museums or the vault. That might be because the museum has been built out considerably in the last 60+ years. Or it could be because I was 7 and I don’t remember the scope of the museum. In any event, I need to make another trip.

 

[Wyo]

My only trip to that museum was in the 1950’s when I was 7 and we took a road trip to Yellowstone.

I don’t remember multiple museums or the vault. That might be because the museum has been built out considerably in the last 60+ years. Or it could be because I was 7 and I don’t remember the scope of the museum. In any event, I need to make another trip.

The only museum in place back in the '50's was the Buffalo Bill Museum. It was located in the little log building that is now the Cody Chamber of Commerce across the street from the present museum complex. To say that it has grown a bit is a huge understatement! We used to like to try to get my Grandma to go to the Buffalo Bill Museum back when I was a kid but she never would do it. She knew him, didn't like him, and wouldn't pay money to "see his stuff." It has become a true, world class museum now with, I believe, probably the finest firearms museum in the USA.

 

[Peak53]

Kind of gives some backbone to "museum quality" - eh?

 

[wyo-man]

Glad you liked it.
It is just literally down the street from me.

wyo-man

 

[pawncop]

Visited there in 2021. The housekeeping folks had to follow me with a mop to clean up the drool. A most amazing collection and display. Also spent two days there. Would love to go back.

 

[rbrbrb6]

The museums in Cody are GREAAT. I was there just a week or so ago for the second time. My friend, Dustin Linebaugh met us when we were done at the museum and we got to eat dinner and spend the rest of the day and part of the following day at his place playing with the cool custom revovlers he is working on!

 

[Gamecock]

Have a meal at Irma Hotel while you are there.

 

[rickyt]

Looks a fantastic place to visit. If I ever get the chance to visit USA, that is one place I love to go see ,together with the Gettysburg Museum. Even visiting a gun shop is said to be a great experience.

 

[Narragansett]

Thank you for posting!!

 

[FlyTyinFool]

That museum sets an extremely high bar that very few others can attain.

My wife and I are huge fans of museums.
We went with another couple that are history buffs, and spent two days going through it all.
We spent another two days visiting all the other historical sites nearby.

My buddy and I went back without the wives on another trip.
We spent 3 days on just the firearms portions of the museum.

Beware! It will make a museum snob out of you though!

 

[Skyhunter]

I visited the museum back in 1967, it certainly has grown! The wife & I have plans to be there later this summer.
Thanks for sharing the photos and information!
My wife and I spent 2 days in Gettysburg last fall and really should'a allocated 3-4. I won't shortchange our time in Cody!
Thanks again!

WYT-P
Skyhunter

 

[heeter3]

Looks like a fantastic trip for those of us 2nd ammendment lovers and ones who appreciate firearms history, good for you Miami JBT.Though I'm not a traveler this might be one worth taking with my wife who is the ultimate traveler.Thanks for the great idea and sharing your cool adventure.

 

[.38SuperMan]

My wife and I went through it about twenty years ago. What an excellent exhibition. We’d both like to go through it again.

 

[S-W4EVER]

I’ve been there a couple times, I really like Cody, and all I’ve seen of Wyoming for that matter. I hope to make a third trip there some day.