Montana Heritage Center to Open in 2025
Author: Victor Sample, Secretary of Visit Southwest Montana
Montana Heritage Center to Open in 2025
Victor Sample
Secretary of Visit Southwest Montana
Last week on November 21, 2024, Rachael Brug, Linda Huth, Nancy Marks and I were on a tour of the new Montana Heritage Center in Helena, located at 225 N. Roberts.
The Montana Heritage Center will replace the old Montana Historical Society Museum. Construction of the new Heritage Center began in the Fall of 2020 and will cost nearly $100 million.
The new Heritage Center will also include the old (but remodeled) Montana History Museum. The new Center will add 66,000 square feet to the old History Museum. It includes a 15,000 square foot “Homeland Gallery”, a larger Charley Russell Gallery, a 7,000 square foot Event Center and a state-of-the-art woodworking shop for creating the exhibits.
The exhibits are still not created and there is much construction yet to be completed, but the new Heritage Center is nearing completion. The Heritage Center is set to open to the public in 2025.
In addition to the actual Heritage Center building (and over 66,000 historical artifacts), the Center has funding to bring in school children from every corner of Montana. The Center will pay for the transportation, lodging and food to allow every school district to be able to have a “field trip” to the new Heritage Center.
The new Heritage Center will be a tremendous asset to Montana that every Montanan can be proud of – it truly will be a jewel of Montana.
Southwest Montana, our local regional tourism partner, scheduled the tour of the Montana Heritage Center building. Rachael Brug and I are on the Southwest Montana Board of Directors. Southwest Montana Executive Director Sarah Bannon and PR Manager Maria Pochervina hosted the event and allowed us to invite Linda Huth (Broadwater County Museum Curator) and Nancy Marks to join us on the tour.
For more information on Southwest Montana, Inc. visit https://members.southwestmt.com/partners
To view the Southwest Montana tourism website, visit https://southwestmt.com/
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PhotoCredit: Montana Heritage Center and Nancy Marks (see credits)
Image 1 Caption: Layout of the new Montana Heritage Center main floor
Montana Heritage Center Photo
Image 2 Caption: Linda Huth and Rachael Brug, along with a Heritage Center Construction Manager, touring the Heritage Center building.
Nancy Marks, MT43 News Photographer
Image 3 Caption: Southwest Montana Board Members tour the state-of-the-art woodworking shop
Nancy Marks, MT43 News Photographer
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