Charles Marion Russell painted the open-range West as he lived it — first as a working cowboy, then as the artist who pictured the vanishing frontier for the rest of the country. The museum holds the largest single collection of his paintings, bronzes, and illustrated letters anywhere, plus a substantial collection of Indigenous artefacts that Russell himself collected and depicted.
His own house and the original log cabin studio, built from telephone poles in 1903, stand alongside the modern museum building. The rooms are kept much as he left them at his death in 1926. The museum's annual auction in March is one of the biggest Western art sales in the country. Allow at least two hours.