Campbell County Rockpile Museum

Campbell County Rockpile Museum - “Energizing History”

The Campbell County Rockpile Museum focuses on local and regional history with an emphasis on the culture and people of Campbell County, Wyoming and the Powder River Basin. Our mission: "Collect, Preserve, Educate. The Campbell County Rockpile Museum tells the story of the Powder River Basin."

Exhibits

Rockpile Museum exhibits feature collections of fossils, Native American artifacts, rifles, saddles, horse-drawn vehicles, and other ranching, homesteading, and energy industry equipment. Hands-on activities throughout the exhibits make for a fun and informative experience for your group of any size or age. Come watch a video tour of an excavation and blasting at a coal mine and then see how the coal is transported to various locations. The museum has a full schedule of temporary exhibits and educational programming each year. There is something for everyone at the Campbell County Rockpile Museum.

3rd Annual Northeast Wyoming Archaeology Fair - September 17, 2022
September is Archaeology Awareness Month in Wyoming and we are excited to bring back our annual Archaeology Fair. This year's theme will be focusing on life in Wyoming prior to 1492. Join us from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for exhibitors, hands-on activities, mock digs, and so much more. Check in at our website rockpilemuseum.com as we get closer to the event for more details.

Special exhibits on display during Museum Day 2022:

Re-Visioning Seth Eastman: Officer Artist Among the Dakotas
Small Town to Boom Town: Growth & Good Fortune in Gillette, Wyoming
Picturing Women Inventors (Smithsonian Poster Exhibit)

Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.