The Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation, Deer Lodge, Montana, is a local non-profit membership organization which operates the Old Montana Prison as a Museum. As the Old Prison Complex contains buildings located on three blocks outside the Old Prison walls, other collections have been brought in to fill five museums.
Our Mission: To preserve, protect and present elements of local and regional history and culture. To be a repository for the history and life of Deer Lodge, Powell County and the State of Montana including but not exclusive to, historic buildings, photographic records, and/or artifacts for preservation, representing the past, present, and future
a non-profit 501 (C) 3 organization.
