The Carter County Geological Society is excited to offer the opportunity for the public to work alongside museum staff to experience hands on opportunities on local property.

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

The CCM is one of fourteen museums on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a passport-style tour of Montana’s dinosaur-bearing institutions. They are a sister museum to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and the Amakusa Museum of Goshoura Dinosaur Island in Kumamoto, Japan. They are a member of the Kumamoto Montana Natural Science Museums Association, and a non-federal repository for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fossils.

Carter County Museum