Seventy-Five years of military history!

From Crazy Horse to the cavalry to the K-9 Corps- Fort Robinson played host to them all. Experience the long and varied history of this outpost on the Plains. The museum at Fort Robinson is located in the 1905 post headquarters building. Exhibits trace the history from the post's role guarding the Red Cloud Agency (1874-77) through the housing of World War II German POW's (1943-46). See fascinating objects such as the only known dog kennel from the K-9 Corps of World War II, marksmanship medals earned by Caleb Benson, a Buffalo Soldier at Fort Robinson between 1902 and 1909, and nineteenth-century Sioux objects related to the Red Cloud Agency.

To learn more about Fort Robinson's history, you can visit more than a dozen historic structures and sites such as the 1904 blacksmith shop, the 1908 veterinary hospital, the 1887 officers' quarters, the 1875 guardhouse and adjutant's office, and the old post cemetery. A museum library featuring materials on Fort Robinson, military, and western history is available to researchers for inhouse use. A self-guided tour book and many books on military and western history are available for purchase in the Landmark Store.

More Information on Fort Robinson history and museums.

Special Events (pdf) at the Fort Robinson

Hours:

  Visitor Hours 2016: 8:30-5:00
    • Schedule
            -Open daily through Labor Day, including state holidays
    • Labor Day - September 25th, 8:30-5:00 Friday/Saturday/Sunday
    • Closed from the end of September through April 2017

Phone:

308-665-2919

Location:

Northwest corner of Nebraska,
Fort Robinson State Park and Museum is 3.2 miles west of Crawford, NE on US Highway 20
(3200 West Highway 20, Crawford, Nebraska     69339)    

 

Brochure (pdf)

Past Fort Robinson History Conferences
   

 

Shop for products available at the Fort Robinson Landmark Store

Admission:

$2 for adults; children 18 and under and school groups are free
Admission fees are waived for NSHS members.

• Days/events admission is waived
            •  Blue Star program for active military families, Memorial Day-Labor Day
            •  Ft. Robinson History Center 60th Anniversary, June 3-4

Tours:

Tours: call 402-471-3499
Group rates available.
Please call ahead to make museum tour reservations.

Mailing address:

Fort Robinson History Center
PO Box 304
Crawford, NE 69339-0304

E-mail:

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Trailside Museum of Natural History, Fort Robinson State Park, features the Clash of the Mammoths.  Trailside Museum is on the Fossil Freeway

 
 
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