Dig into history in southeast Montana!

The Carter County Museum is located in Ekalaka, Montana, a ranching community of just 400 residents. The museum was founded in 1936 by forward thinking locals who understood the importance of collecting, preserving, and cataloging historic artifacts and specimens of scientific significance found in the surrounding landscape. Housed in its original building, a former automotive garage, the museum is Montana’s first county museum and the first to display dinosaur fossils.

The CCM is one of fifteen museums on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a passport-style tour of Montana’s dinosaur-bearing institutions. We are a sister museum to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and the Amakusa Museum of Goshoura Dinosaur Island in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The CCM is also a member of the Kumamoto Montana Natural Science Museums Association, and a non-federal repository for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and USDA Forest Service fossils, as well as the official repository for archaeological and paleontological material from Medicine Rocks State Park.