The Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West holds about 4,200 firearms spanning 500 years, built on the Winchester Arms collection.
Don’t miss
- Firearms Safety and Basics gallery where visitors work real actions
- Recreated Browning Brothers store and 19th-century arms factory
- Early Colt Paterson revolvers and John Browning prototypes
- Original Winchester 1873 design drawings
- Browning M2 machine gun and long-range rifle simulators
Our visit
The Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West holds one of the largest firearms collections in the world, built around the Winchester factory collection that came to Cody in 1975.
On the tour’s 2018 stop, most of the guns were off display while the gallery was being rebuilt. The redesigned museum reopened in 2019 with far more on view, and it is now one of the must-see firearm museums in the country. The Dug Up Gun Museum is a few blocks away.
Timeline
- 1975 Winchester Arms Collection comes to Cody
- 2018 Gallery closed for a full redesign
- 2019 Redesigned Cody Firearms Museum reopens
Plan your visit
- Tickets are good for two days and include all five museums at the Center
- Knives with blades 4 inches or longer, bear spray and large backpacks are not allowed inside
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