Admission: Free
(Donations are greatfully accepted)

The Medicine Bow Museum is located in the old railroad depot, across the highway from the Virginian Hotel. The depot was built in November 1913, after a fire destroyed the original depot earlier that same year.

The Union Pacific Railroad closed the depot in 1981, and it was deeded to the Town and placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1982. In 1983, the depot became home to the Medicine Bow Museum and its colorful Old West and Local History Artifacts.

The Owen Wister Cabin and Monument are located next to the museum. The cabin was used as Wister's summer home and winter hunting lodge in the Jackson Hole Area, and brought to Medicine Bow as a bicentennial project by the Town's Lion's Club.

The Monument, made of petrified wood, was erected in 1939, as a tribute to Owen Wister and his book "The Virginian."

A caboose, given to the Museum by the U.P. Railroad, is a reminder of the importance the railroad played in the past.

The Owen Wister General Store, just South of the Museum, is the actual store building where Owen Wister slept on the counter upon arriving in Medicine Bow in 1885.

At the Museum, you will enjoy looking at the brands for cattle and sheep ranches in the Medicine Bow area.

The Museum is open daily during the summer months and hunting season, and part-time during the winter months. Contact the Medicine Bow Museum, (307) 379-2383;, P.O. Box 187, Medicine Bow, WY 82329, for times and dates or E-Mail them at Medicine Bow Museum if you like.

(See the "History of Depot - Museum.")

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