Museums

  


Museum of the Beartooths

Museum of the Beartooths in Columbus reflects Stillwater County’s corner of Montana History. The main building, newly constructed as a museum in 1991, briefly outlines local history back to the 1870’s. Exhibits include historic washing machines, artifacts relating to the second Crow Agency, 1875-1882, the Albert Johnson vintage home furniture, 1895 Line Drug Company pharmaceutics, military section featuring a tribute to native Donald J. Ruhl, one of Montana’s seven Congressional Medal of Honor recipients earned by his sacrificial death on Iwo Jima. Other notable displays tell the story of the 1938 Frank Robideau hanging in Columbus and a time line of mining activities culminating in the current Stillwater Mining Company platinum/palladium mine, the only one in America. Many photos have been identified and much information is available on families that live or have lived in Stillwater County. We will gladly make copies of these photos, stories or maps to help you with your genealogy projects.

A quaint museum gift shop intrigues visitors with a variety of made in Montana crafts as well as books and memorabilia items. Outdoors, a new building displays farm machinery and related tools; a forge from a historic blacksmith shop; flour-sacker from once thriving county flour mill. Nearby, visitors may tour a retired 1960’s Northern pacific caboose, kindly donated by Burlington Northern/Santa Fe Railroad Company.

Open to the public June-September
Tuesday-Sunday, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Contact: Penny Redli, Director
440 E. 5th Ave. N.
PO Box 1
Columbus, MT 59019

(406) 322-4588

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