The Carter County Museum is located in Ekalaka, Montana, a ranching community of just 400 residents. The museum was founded in 1936 by forward thinking locals who understood the importance of collecting, preserving, and cataloging historic artifacts and specimens of scientific significance found in the surrounding landscape. The museum is Montana’s first county museum and the first to display dinosaur fossils.
The CCM is one of fourteen museums on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a passport-style tour of Montana’s dinosaur-bearing institutions. We are a sister museum to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and the Amakusa Museum of Goshoura Dinosaur Island in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The CCM is also a member of the Kumamoto Montana Natural Science Museums Association, and a non-federal repository for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and USDA Forest Service fossils, as well as the official repository for archaeological and paleontological material from Medicine Rocks State Park.
Carter County Museum is home to the Annual Dino Shindig, named Event of the Year by the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development. The Shindig takes place during the last weekend in July.
For more information on the Dino Shindig and the museum visit cartercountymuseum.org
For more information about the Montana Dinosaur Trail go to www.mtdinotrail.org
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