Visitor Center & Montana Auto Museum

Visitor Center and Montana Auto Museum

The buildings where the Visitor Center and Montana Auto Museum are located were originally part of the prison complex as were the red brick buildings across the street from the prison.

	From the early 1900's until 1960, the Visitor Center and some of the buildings, which house the Montana Auto Museum, had a variety of different uses. Some of the uses included trustee bunkhouse, carpenter and electrical shop, garage, storeroom, property controller's office, inmate waiting room and trustee visiting room.
	When the 1959 earthquake damaged the 1896 Cell House, the Visitor Center building was converted into a dormitory. Later it became the laundry building.