Museum’s more than 30K items have been inventoried and cataloged

The Museum at the Bighorns plans to relocate to the historic Woolworth building at 171 North Main Str., in downtown Sheridan. 

Executive Director Danielle Stuckle temporarily closed the museum after the annual Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023 and will reopen in the new downtown location in the Spring of 2025.

For months, Museum staff and volunteers have been inventorying the collection, which numbers more than 30,000 objects, in preparation to relocate them to the new location in downtown Sheridan.  

During an appearance on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse, Stuckle said some items in the collection have no background context on where they came from or who donated them. Something more common in the museum profession than one would initially believe. 

D. Stuckle 

Although some of the items have no background as to who owned them, staff and volunteers work to put some form of context to the items. Many of these widgets fulfilled a purpose lost to time or have been replaced with newer objects that do a better job fulfilling the intent. Either way, the goal of the museum is to preserve and teach the public about the items that were once commonplace among the population. 

D. Stuckle 

The move is on schedule and Stuckle and the board are currently preparing to receive presentations from contracted specialists who build exhibit displays.