National Museum of Wildlife Art – Virtual Tour

The National Museum of Wildlife Art preserves and exhibits wildlife art. The Museum is located amid a wildlife habitat that overlooks the National Elk Refuge.

The collection reflects traditional and contemporary realism exhibited in 14 galleries. The Museum has a sculpture trail, children’s discovery gallery, and library.

The Museum’s mission is to collect, interpret, and preserve the highest quality wildlife art while inspiring appreciation and knowledge of humanity’s relationship with nature.

The Museum was founded in 1987, and during 1994, the Museum opened its current facility, which is a 51,000 square foot building with an Idaho quartzite façad.

The Museum has over 5,000 artworks by 550 artists, which include works Auguste Rodin, Picasso, Rembrandt, Archibald Thorburn, Daniel Huntington, Rosa Bonheur, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol.

National Museum of Wildlife Art – Located on a bluff near in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Highlights of the National Museum of Wildlife Art

Wapiti Trail by American sculptor Bart Walter – a monumental sculpture of five elk
A Sculpture Trail, which is three-quarter-mile long with about 20 permanent and temporary works of art
Educational programs to accommodate a range of ages and learning styles
The Library is a non-circulating research library with an emphasis on material relating to wildlife art and artists
Boy with Fox by Grace Hudson
Polar Bear by Colin Campbell Cooper
In the Forest by Albert Bierstadt
Bearded Vultures Attacking an Alpine Ibex by Joseph Wolf

Prong-Horned Antelope by Albert Bierstadt

National Museum of Wildlife Art

Museum: National Museum of Wildlife Art
Previously: Wildlife of the American West Museum
City: Jackson, Wyoming
Country: United States
Established: 1987
Type: Specialist Museums
Category: National Museum of the United States,
Location: 2820 Rungius Road, Jackson, Wyoming, United States

National Museum of Wildlife Art Map

National Museum of Wildlife Art – 360 views

Virtual Tour of the National Museums of the United States

National Museum of Wildlife Art

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National Museum of Wildlife Art

“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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Photo Credit: WildlifeArtJH / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); Daniel Mayer / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/); Albert Bierstadt / Public domain