The museum offers an ongoing educational program that includes lectures, discussions, films, classes, tours and video presentations. Museum programs are free and open to the public. The museum's Art School offers a variety of discipline-based and multidisciplinary classes for children and adults on a sliding fee scale. They receive regular museum mailings with information on upcoming shows, as well as discounts in the museum shop. For information call Kate Sutherland at the museum.
Admission is free.
The museum boasts one of the biggest permanent collections in the Northwest, with more than 8,500 American, Asian and European historical and contemporary works. Exhibits include faculty shows and traveling shows, and change frequently. Historical Museum at Fort Missoula . Entrance to the museum is on South Avenue past Community Medical Center and across from Big Sky High School. Winter hours, Labor Day to Memorial Day, are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.