Carter County Museum

Carter County Museum, located in Ekalaka, Montana, is the first county museum in Montana.^[1] The museum is one of several in the state on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a collection of museums with unique paleontology displays.^[2]

The collections at the museum include a large dinosaur exhibit, a focus on natural history, ranch and homestead life, and a veteran's room that covers the people from the area that traveled to war since the founding of county in 1917.

Exhibits

Dinosaurs

Carter County contains part of the Hell Creek Formation, and many paleontologists visit the area each summer to look for more fossilized remains.^[3] Fossils from Carter County are found in many of the science museums in the country. The Carter County Museum itself contains several significant fossils, largely collected on private land in the 1930's and 1940's including one of the most complete Anatotitan copei found. There is also a complete Triceratops skull.^[4]

The dinosaur exhibits are rotated from the museum's stored collections.^[5]

Local History and Natural History

Aside from the dinosaurs, there is also significant exhibit space given to other later animals and geological. The museum also hosts a wide range of exhibits including a firearms display, old equipment from early in the life of Ekalaka, pictures of towns that lived and died in the past century, and flavors of life for the thousands of early homesteaders who tried to make a living on the dry land.^[6]

References

External links

• Carter County Museum - official site

Coordinates: 45°53′28″N 104°32′47″W / 45.8910°N 104.5465°W / 45.8910; -104.5465