National Wildlife Art Museum

About National Wildlife Art Museum

The museum is unique among American art museums, distinguished by its mission and location. With collections of nearly 4,000 works of art, the museum strives to enrich and inspire public appreciation of fine art and humanity's relationship with nature by focusing its exhibitions and programs on wildlife. Situated on a butte in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the museum overlooks the 20,000-acre National Elk Refuge and is on route to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

Wildlife art is one of humanity's earliest artforms, dating back to prehistoric cave paintings. Its long existence in virtually every culture exemplifies humankind's vital relationship with nature, a relationship that has suffered in western civilization since the onset of the industrial revolution and the ensuing technological age. It is fitting that the museum preserves and interprets this art in one of the few remaining areas of the United States where native wildlife still roams abundantly and free.