Welcome to the Huntley Project Museum.  We want to thank you for visiting our website and hope that it will encourage you to come and visit us in person.   We are located 15 miles East of Billings off Highway 312;  the history, culture and memories generated here are what makes up the uniqueness of the Huntley Project and surrounding areas.

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Museum Begins Construction: 

In the spring of 2012 the Huntley Project Museum will begin the construction of a turn of century town site and homestead site.  The TIIP Grant awarded the museum with $22,500 for this project. The museum will also use donations and savings to complete the entire development.

Scope of the Project

A total of nine buildings will be moved to join the current doctor’s office and bank on the north side of the canal. The town site will utilize five museum owned buildings, it will feature a mercantile, post office, church, barbershop, and theater. The remaining four buildings will be arranged to simulate an early homestead including; a 1910 homestead house, log cabin, barn with corral, and chicken coop. A raised boardwalk will be constructed to lead visitors from the main museum center to the old fashioned town site.

Stage One-Early Spring 2012

Currently foundations are being excavated and poured by RL Schaff Concrete Construction LLC.

Stage Two- Spring 2012

Wiley Crandall of Outwest Lifters will move the buildings onto their respective foundations. Smaller buildings will be moved by museum board members and volunteers under the advisement of board member Bill Kraske.

Stage Three-Summer 2012

Museum board members and volunteers will construct the wooden boardwalk to connect the main museum center to the town site.

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       The  Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture tells the unique story of the homesteaders who transformed this valley from prairie desert to lush farmland.  From an early homestead, complete with barn and outbuildings, to the Museum Center’s exhibits, visitors can immerse themselves in the history of the homesteading era and life on the Project.

See a typical small-town Main Street, walk through a restored 1908 homestead cabin, explore a 1920’s farm, and watch the harvesting of traditional crops.   The Huntley Project Museum is a fun, educational, and dynamic museum dedicated to sharing the voices of past generations through the artifacts they left behind.

The Museum Center houses the everyday items of the homestead families as well as records and photographs of the Huntley Project Communities.  You will find quilts, dresses, dishes and cookbooks of the women; hand tools, saddles and farm machinery of the men, and the precious handmade toys of the children.  These items tell the story of the families striving to better their lives and the lives of the generations to come.