Exhibitions

The C.M. Russell Museum features five galleries dedicated to the life and art of Charles M. Russell. In addition to the Russell galleries, the Museum includes several other exhibitions, including the outstanding Browning Firearms Collection, paintings by highly regarded western American artist O.C. Seltzer and original sculpture models by E.E. Heikka.

Contemporary western art also has a home at the Museum, featuring works by artists such as Donna Howell-Sickles, Deborah Butterfield, Russell Chatham, Kevin Red Star, Jay Contway, and Gerald Balciar.

In addition to our inside galleries, the Museum Grounds provide an opportunity to enjoy original art in an outdoor setting. Bronze panels by the late Bob Scriver depicting key episodes of Russell's life, and a clay piece by Judy Erickson frame the south entrance. T.D. Kelsey's half-life-size bronze of two buffalo, entitled Change of Seasons, resides beyond the east entrance. A sculpture of Russell himself, also created by Scriver, can be seen at the front entrance of the Museum. In the north parking lot, steel creations by Lyndon Pomeroy are on display.

Changing Exhibitions

The beautiful lower level galleries are frequently used for temporary changing exhibitions, which allow the Museum to offer a broad spectrum of work that relates to our mission. Shows brought in from other museums alternate with permanent collection works by important western artists and Russell contemporaries including J.H. Sharp, Frank Tenney Johnson, John Fery, and Henry Famy. These artists, along with Russell, laid the foundation for the western art that was to follow. For exhibitions currently on display, please visit our Current Exhibitions page.