Activities

Museums

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American Heritage Center

 (ONSITE )
Address:
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071



Phone: 307-766-4114
Website: American Heritage Center


The American Heritage Center (AHC) is UW’s archives, rare books, and manuscripts repository. Most universities have special collections. Few have special collections as extensive and significant as the American Heritage Center. More importantly, few universities have special collections as welcoming and accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. Not a dusty attic or an exclusive sanctuary, the AHC is a welcoming, lively, place where both experts and novices engage with the original sources of history.

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Boardwalk Saddle Museum

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Address:
1951 Snowy Range Road
Laramie, WY 82070



Phone: 307-742-3977
Website: Boardwalk Saddle Museum


Welcome to The Boardwalk, featuring saddles, chaps, pack saddles, gun leather, custom leather work, custom saddlery, custom chaps, strap leather, scabbards, knife sheaths, and more western and unique products made from the finest leather. Check out our western jewelry and one of a kind items! All of our products are unique, and made the old fashioned way, one at a time, with careful attention to detail.

Historic Ivinson Mansion

 (GUIDED ONSITE )
Address:
603 E. Ivinosn Avenue
Laramie, WY 82070



Phone: 307-742-4448
Website: Historic Ivinson Mansion


In February of 1868, Mr. Ivinson started building his house and he brought his family in on the first train. Mrs. Ivinson immediately set out to start a church and Sunday School and the first services were held in the Ivinson general store. In December 1868, the citizens had a festive party at the railroad station; Mr. Ivinson gloried in his role of Santa Claus - a role he repeated for several years.

Laramie Union Pacific Train Depot

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Address:
1st Street and Kearney Street
Laramie, WY 82070



Phone: 307-399-3772


The Laramie Union Pacific Depot officially opened at 7:00pm, September 6th, 1924. This station was built and served as Laramie’s passenger station until 1996 when Amtrak ceased passenger service along the Wyoming corridor. By Union Pacific standards, the station is of unique exterior design; finished in red brick with a number of distinctive accents, the most prominent of which are the terra-cotta Union Pacific “Overland Route” roundels in the center of the east and west facing walls. The interior is also distinctive, finished in wood paneling with large wooden beams, and featuring indirect lighting around the perimeter of the cathedral ceiling over the waiting area. A Railway Express Agency office was located off the baggage area in the north end of the building, and served Laramie’s parcel needs throughout the hey-day of the railroads. This was one of the last Union Pacific stations to be built in the traditional style, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Historic Downtown Laramie District. The depot is now used for meetings, weddings and private and public functions. For more information about rentals or tours please call 307-399-3772.

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Nici Self Museum

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Address:
2734 Hwy 130
Centennial, WY 82055



Phone: 307-742-7763
Email: cagoldie@msn.com
Website: Nici Self Museum


The museum is partially housed in a 1907 Hahn's Peak and Pacific Railroad depot. Its exhibits depict the general history of the Centennial Valley. Topics include mining, lumbering, ranching, and railroading. A 1944 Union Pacific caboose and many large pieces of ranching, farming, and mining equipment are on site.

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University of Wyoming Anthropology Museum

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Address:
UW Campus
Laramie, WY 82071



Phone: 307-766-5136
Website: University of Wyoming Anthropology Museum


The museum has a wide range of exhibits. See displays on Native American materials from the Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest and Arctic, as well as displays on the material culture and artistry from throughout the world, including Africa, Polynesia, Australia, and Asia.

University of Wyoming Art Museum

 (ONSITE )
Address:
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071



Phone: 307-766-6622
Website: University of Wyoming Art Museum


Bringing the world of art to Wyoming through collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the highest quality visual art by national, regional, and international artists, the University of Wyoming Art Museum is an educational institution that provides leadership in the arts and serves Wyoming's academic community, citizens, and visitors. The museum is located in the dramatic Centennial Complex on the university campus in Laramie, Wyoming, an award-winning facility designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Antoine Predock.

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University of Wyoming Insect Gallery

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Address:
Agriculture Bldg. Room 4018
Laramie, WY 82071



Phone: 307-766-5338
Website: University of Wyoming Insect Gallery


The University of Wyoming Insect Museum is the only research collection of insects in the state of Wyoming. Present holdings are estimated at more than a quarter of a million specimens. It is an important regional resource, as well as a collection of national and international significance. Holdings are particularly strong in the major orders Hymenoptera (53%), Diptera (12%), Lepidoptera (10%), and Coleoptera (9%). Several unique voucher collections are housed at University of Wyoming including the Pawnee National Grasslands Collection, Johnston and Wyodak Power Plant Collections, Hanna Strip-Mine Collection, the 1989-1990 Yellowstone Post-Fire Collection, Shelterbelt Insect Collection, the 1992 Brazilian Araguaia River Expedition Collection, and the world's largest research collection of Costa Rican parasitic wasps of the family Braconidae.

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University of Wyoming Planetarium

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Address:
10th and Lewis
Laramie, WY 82071



Phone: 307-766-2613
Website: University of Wyoming Planetarium


The UW Planetarium is a facility of the University of Wyoming Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Planetarium offers shows for the public, as well as for K-12 and college classes and community groups. The UW Planetarium first opened in 1969 and has served the community for many years with shows for the public, for K-12 students, and for college astronomy teaching. Our planetarium is equipped with a Spitz starball.

Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center

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Address:
968 N. 9th Street
Laramie, WY 82072



Phone: 307-745-6335
Website: Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center


The Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center is designed to provide children and families the opportunity for alternative education to learn about Wyoming and the world around them through interactive on-site and outreach exhibits and programs that explore the natural and physical sciences, the arts and the humanities.

Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site

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Address:
975 Snowy Range Road
Laramie, WY 82070



Phone: 307-745-6161
Website: Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site


Built in 1872 and restored in 1989, the prison is the highlight of the WTPSHS. Pick up a brochure in the gift shop and head toward the prison for a self-guided tour. (Development of an audio tour system is in the works.) Plan to spend at least an hour inside. Stops along the tour include: furnished cells, the prisoners' dining area, guard's quarters, infirmary, women's quarters, laundry room, warden's office, and various exhibit galleries. New exhibit's include: Found During Restoration: Artifacts Uncovered (including items found during the History Channel sponsored, Unlocking Secrets in the Soil project), N. K. Boswell: Warden and Lawman, Innocent or Guilty? Women Inmates of the Wyoming Territorial Prison, and a new exhibit on Butch Cassidy.

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Wyoming's House for Historic Women

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Address:
2nd and Garfield
Laramie, WY 82070



Phone: 307-745-4586
Website: Wyoming's House for Historic Women


Early in the morning on September 6, 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming, Louisa Swain, a 70 year old Quaker lady, became the first woman in the world to cast a ballot under laws giving women the right to vote with full civil equality to men