Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument Interpretive Center

The Missouri Breaks National Monument Interpretive Center highlights the natural and cultural history of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Boating information for those floating the Wild and Scenic Upper Missouri River is available, as well as hands-on exhibits about the land, the wildlife and culture of the area.

View the rifle an exhausted and disheartened Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrendered on October 5, 1877 to General Nelson A. Miles, at the Bears Paw Battlefield of Montana. Step inside a replica steamboat pilot house, with artifacts from the actual steamboat the Far West. View a life size version of a Murphy freight wagon that pulled supplies – brought up river on steamboats – to far flung reaches of Montana and beyond. Come learn about the pallid sturgeon and paddlefish – which have been in the Missouri River since the age of the dinosaurs.

The Classroom features a 3-D model of the Missouri River landscape and incredible images – depicted from Karl Bodmer’s journey up the Missouri in 1833.

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