The museum itself is cute and interesting with all the collectable. I guess it was a brothel at one time.
The staff was nice but not very knowledgeable about any history of the museum itself. We were there for a walking tour. There was no encouragement to explore the museum. I think they have volunteers that create walking tours. Local historians that conduct research and create the tour. The tour host told us stuff that contradicted what the museum had on display in pictures & plaques, and even what the city had on plaques I had noticed walking around earlier.
Part of it could be that we have taken walking history tours... Similar themes of the dark history of an area, in Savannah, Boston, London...
So we have been on good tours. With great story telling that you didn't even care how true it was.
This host was mostly quoting research and offering her judgement & opinions. Little confusing and contradictory at times.
I stopped asking questions because I didn't want to steal away any one else experience. And once I lowered my expectation, I enjoyed the totality of the experience... Beautiful quaint town, great to walk around with some preservation starting in earnest.
Not sure if the museum pays the tour host or if she was just a volunteer.
The museum tend to elevate the women in their slim options the for a livelihood, the tour guide seems to cast judgement on the poor women of Bozeman, not the industrialists that made them sex slaves to the growing town, and the necessity to survive in a new city at the start of the industrial age.
The cost of the tour was a good value, and was worth every opinion though because would know none of it otherwise.
And of all the tours available, this was the best selection
I wish that Bozeman historical created a plaque or other marker for what once stood on the ground there read more