This is certainly the most logical place to have located the visitor centre, given that the Central Montana Museum is a relatively large museum receiving lots of visitors. Right on the eastern edge of town and facing the major thoroughfare, Highway 87, the museum and visitor centre is often the first stop in Lewistown for folks arriving from the east.
Inside the building, the visitor centre and the museum are connected, so the museum host is also the visitor centre host. Visitors customarily enter through the museum.
Housing displays depicting cultural, business, industrial, military, agricultural and paleontological history, this is a very complete and comprehensive museum. It encompasses essentially every aspect of life and living in the central Montana area, including the age of the dinosaurs, 65,000,000 to 150,000,000 years ago, the arrival of North American Natives 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, and the arrival of European settlers, 150 years ago.
In a fairly large building, the east end of which houses the Lewistown Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, the museum's collection contains a vast and eclectic array of artefacts, photographs, documents, maps and other paraphernalia collected together by the
Central Montana Historical Association, which oversees operation of the museum.