Hot Springs County Museum & Cultural Center
700 Broadway in Thermopolis (307) 864-5183

The Hot Springs County Museum is larger than it looks. Visitors are astounded at the two full floors of exhibits, plus the five annex buildings that complete the amazing collections. The annex includes a Burlington Northern caboose, agriculture building, petroleum building, old school house, and poverty flats cottage. The two floors of the main building feature an exhibit of over 8,000 Native American artifacts, Gebo coal mine model, and original historic photographs. That’s just for starters! Shoshone and Arapaho beadwork and elk hide paintings by Chief Washakie of the Shoshone are also on display. The original cherrywood bar from the Hole-in-the-Wall Bar, once frequented by some of the West’s most famous outlaws, like Butch Cassidy, is on the first floor. The museum has a long association with jackalopes. You can even get a jackalope hunting license at the museum. The entire family will enjoy this enormous display of Native American, pioneer and cowboy memorabilia, that will take you to the old west and before. The museum is open year round and admission is charged.