About Crook County History Center

Bowman Museum‘s beautiful new Community Center offers space for banquets, lectures, plays and theatrical performances as well as space for classes and Meetings.

New permanent exhibits tell Crook County’s story – from local Native Americans to homesteaders; from farming and ranching, to logging and Hayden Homes’ story.

Provides flexible spaces that host entertaining and informative traveling exhibits, an on-going lecture series, historic reenactments and community meetings.

School classes enjoy an expanse of new interactive exhibits and special event, and take part in hands-on demonstrations.

And Behind the Scenes …

A fully climate-controlled Collection Care Center preserves valuable rare documents and artifacts.

The Collection Care Center helps to accelerate electronic preservation of documents where they are available locally — and to a wider audience via the Internet.

The new Research Library gives both the professional and amateur historian better access to historical and genealogical records.