The Buffalo Bill Historical Center is a complex of five museums and a research library displaying artifacts and art of the American West located in Cody, Wyoming. Founded in 1917 to preserve the legacy and vison of Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (BBHC) is the oldest and most comprehensive museum of the West. It has been described by The New York Times as "among the nation's most remarkable museums." (Edward Rothstein, New York Times, August 3, 2012)
Since 2008, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center has been part of the Smithsonian Affiliations program. As an Affiliate collaborator, with a strong desire to help share America's artistic and historic heritage, the BBHC has hosted Smithsonian artifacts, and has recently loaned some of the their vast collections to a Smithsonian exhibition in Washington, D.C.
The museums of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center are tied together by a unifying "credo" (adopted 2010 by the Board of Trustees) that begins, "We believe in a spirit, definable and intellectually real, called "The Spirit of the American West.'" The institution includes the recently reconceived Buffalo Bill Museum (New York Times, August 3, 2012), which highlights Western ephemera and historic objects that contribute in telling the life story of W. F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
Read more about Buffalo Bill Historical Center: Buffalo Bill Museum, Plains Indians Museum, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody Firearms Museum, Draper Museum of Natural History
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