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Galleries
Six of the Museum’s 14 galleries introduce visitors to a wide range of topics related to the permanent collection. The Museum also features temporary exhibitions focused on wildlife, nature, and the American West.
The Wapiti Gallery
For much of the year, the Wapiti Gallery displays The Power of this Place, with artwork depicting local landscapes and wildlife. This gallery introduces the Museum and the surrounding region, interpreting the powerful allure of this corner of Wyoming for locals, visitors, and artists alike. The Power of this Place is generally on view from November through April and features interactive kiosks where visitors can explore the Museum’s website.
The Greene Pathways Gallery
The Pathways Gallery presents a brief overview of how wildlife has been represented in European and American art. It includes the allegorical Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, the highly romantic The Deer Pass by Edwin Landseer, the fantastical Tiger Observing Cranes by Jean-Leon Gérôme, as well as masterpieces by wildlife artists Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Liljefors, and Carl Rungius.
The JKM Gallery
This installation groups artwork thematically, giving visitors a variety of topics to look for as they encounter wildlife art in other galleries or outside the Museum. Much of the featured artwork comes from the JKM Collection, the core of our holdings, which includes works by Antoine-Louis Barye, Albert Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, Ken Carlson, George Catlin, Edward Kemeys, Bob Kuhn, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Russell, among others.
The Rungius Gallery
The National Museum of Wildlife Art houses the largest public collection in the United States of Carl Rungius' work. Widely regarded as the preeminent painter of North American wildlife, Rungius began his career in Wyoming, not far from the location of the NMWA. Later in life, he spent the majority of his summers in Banff, Alberta, painting the vast Canadian Rockies and plentiful populations of big horn sheep, mountain goats, grizzly bears, and moose.
The American Bison Gallery
Originally assembled as a traveling exhibit for the 1990 Wyoming Centennial, the Museum’s American Bison collection is now a permanent installation. It chronicles the cultural and perceptual changes surrounding the bison that occurred in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Artwork rotates through the gallery on a semi-annual basis, so there is always something new to see.
The John Clymer Studio
In 1991, Doris Clymer and the Clymer family donated this gallery to represent the artist's Jackson Hole studio. This installation includes his reference books, studio props, costumes and approximately 200 artifacts collected during his lifetime.