ART & MUSEUMS
Frontier Gateway Museum
The Frontier Gateway Museum includes seven buildings on an acre of land. Major displays in the main building include fossils, Native American artifacts, homesteaders, cattlemen, settlers, and railroad. There is historical in content beginning with prehistoric times continuing into the 21st century.
The Frontier Gateway is also one of two Montana Dinosaur Trail stops in Glendive.
201 State St.
406-377-8168
Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m.- 5 p.m.
Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum
The museum houses more than 24 full-size dinosaurs plus numerous singular fossils. It also houses informative exhibits explaining the origin of the geologic column, the fossil record, the age of the earth, as well as a Biblical history exhibit, a theater and a gift shop.
139 State St.
(406) 377-3228
April/May
(Fridays and Saturdays from 10am-5pm), Memorial Day to Labor Day
(Monday through Saturday from 10am-5pm), September/October
(Fridays and Saturdays from 10am-5pm)
Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park is located just southeast of Glendive. Makoshika means ‘bad land’ in Lakota, and the Park’s landscape is part of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation. Over ten different dinosaur species have been discovered in Makoshika. The recently refurbished visitor center houses the Triceratops skull, and provides additional interpretive displays significant to the badlands.
1301 Snyder Ave.
406-377-6256
Montana Dinosaur Trail
This statewide trail runs across Montana and consists of 14 locations from the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Bynum to the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka. Each location offers a glimpse at the historic discoveries in the state and provides visitors with a better understanding of the giants that once inhabited our planet.
While in Glendive stop at the two different locations along the Trail! The Frontier Gateway Museum displays a full-size skeleton cast of “Margie,” the Struthiomimus found near Glendive in the early 1990s. Makoshika State Park has had significant discoveries including a complete Triceratops horridus skull, the fossil remains of Edmontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex, and a nearly complete skeleton of the rare Thescelosaur. The visitor center houses the Triceratops skull, and provides additional interpretive displays significant to the badlands.
Art in the Area
Bridger Bronze Statue Trail
As you venture down Merrill Avenue in Glendive, you will find the legacy work of local sculptor, Pamela Harr of Bridger Bronze. Take a moment and explore the life-size art and story preserved and captured in bronze for generations to treasure.
The Gallery
The Gallery is a non-profit art gallery located in downtown Glendive. We work to promote the amazing talents found by our Montanan neighbors and friends. The Gallery has artists from many mediums from painting to sculptures, photography to metal work almost any form of art can be found at The Gallery.
Murals in Glendive
Located behind the Beer Jug
Located at 212 S Merrill Ave, PC Kristi Powell
Located in the alley at 200 S Merrill Ave
Located in the alley at 200 S Merrill Ave
Located on North Merrill Avenue by the KOCH Furniture sign
Located at Re-Treat
Located near Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Located at Salon Bliss