Welcome To Fort Wallace Museum
Preserving the History of the Smoky Hill River Basin
Home of the "Fightin'est Fort in the West"

Fort Wallace Memorial Association 
 Fort Wallace museum has resume normal operating hours. 
Face mask are voluntary.
FWMA will provide hand sanitizers.
FWMA has sanitizing protocols in place for restrooms and lobby areas.

FWMA encourage self limiting distancing.
FWMA Encourage washing of hands or voluntary use of gloves.
FWMA encourage no touching of objects and artifacts.
FWMA encourage limiting touching of retail items.


The Fort Wallace Rodeo has been POSTPONED due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Instead of Memorial Day Weekend, please plan to join us for Labor Day Weekend, Sept 5-6, 2020
in Wallace, KS for our great tradition of Rodeo!  
Saturday  performances start at 7 PM MST.
Sunday performances start at 6 PM MST.

Up coming events. details to be posted later.

Fort Wallace Memorial Association annual meeting will be held Sunday August 9, 2020.

Fort Wallace Rodeo will be held Labor Day week end.  Sept 5 and 6, 2020

September 11 & 12, 2020 Harvesting the Plains Expo and raffle drawings.

 

Jayne  Pearce Photo

Comstock Sculpture by Jerry Thomas

Smoky Hill River Basin was the site for many buffalo hunts in the period of the buffalo hunting time period.

Fort Wallace Memorial Association, as a fund raiser for the Fort Wallace Museum,
has announced a series of raffles for 2020.

The major raffle details are:

Tickets $100 each.    Raffle limited to 500 tickets.

Drawing to be held Saturday, September 12, 2020 at a special event at the Fort Wallace Museum.

Need not be present to win.

1874 Shiloh Sharps .50-90

Picture representation

Guided Buffalo Hunt at Beaver Creek Buffalo



4-Day stay at the Prairie Lodge on the Homestead Ranch




Raffle winner can keep buffalo meat, mount, hide and skull from the hunt.


Tickets can be bought at the Fort Wallace Museum,
 from Board members, select members of FWMA,
area gun shows and other events.


Fort Wallace Museum
2655 Highway 40
Wallace, KS 67761
(785) 891-3564
www.ftwallace.com