McCone County Museum, Circle, Montana
Behind the rooms full of arrowheads and barbed wire samples at the back of the McCone County Museum, there is a long room housing the wildlife collection assembled by Orville Quick (a graduate of the Northwestern School of Taxidermy and curator of the museum) and his sons Randy and Larry. The collection represents over 40 years of hunting trophies that once hung in the Quick home until their numbers overwhelmed the house!
Now the wildlife exhibits at the museum show examples of most of Montana's wildlife, from small rodents to large geese and bear heads. Some of the smaller mounts are gathered in rudimentary displays of natural materials, but the species are thrown together without much success at recreating a believable habitat for them. Two raccoons climb a pine log past a great horned owl toward a shelf where a mountain lion awaits them.
Highway 200
Circle, Montana 59215Open Year Around
Weekdays 9am - 5pm
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