Wyoming State Museum

Wyoming


This bite-sized museum serves up a good preview of Wyoming and will help you get your bearings. It takes a generalist approach to the state, ranging across mining history, ranching heritage and native struggle, to public lands, dinosaur digs and Wyoming wildlife.


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