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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Parmly Billings Memorial Library
| image = Parmly Billings Memorial Library.jpg
| caption = The building in 1920.
| location= 2822 Montana Ave., [[Billings, Montana]]
| locmapin = Montana#USA
| built = 1901
| architect = [[Charles S. Haire]]
| architecture = [[Richardsonian Romanesque]]
| added = 26 October 1972
| refnum = 72000740
}}
The '''Western Heritage Center''' is a regional museum located in historic downtown [[Billings, Montana]], [[United States]]. The museum is housed in the historic Parmly Billings Memorial Library, built in 1901. The building is a stately Richardsonian Romanesque structure with twin towers, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Western Heritage Center displays original exhibits about south-central Montana and the Northern Plains and houses oral histories and artifacts about the history of the [[Yellowstone River]] Valley. The museum celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2021.
The Western Heritage Center, a former affiliate of the [[Smithsonian Institution]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Western Heritage Center|url=https://affiliations.si.edu/AffiliateDetail.asp?AffiliateID=92|publisher=Smithsonian Affiliations|accessdate=3 May 2013}}</ref> is accredited by the [[American Alliance of Museums]].<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Accredited Museums April 2013|url=http://www.aam-us.org/docs/accreditation/list-of-accredited-museums.pdf?sfvrsn=6|publisher=American Alliance of Museums|accessdate=3 May 2013|page=15}}</ref> The museum opened in 1971 after a organized group of leading citizens prevented the building from being torn down. The founders established the museum as an interpretive center with an emphasis on changing exhibits, outreach programming, and the incorporation of new technologies.
In 2001, the Western Heritage Center received the Montana Governor's Humanities Award, the second organization to receive an honor usually reserved for individual contributions to the Humanities.<ref>{{cite news|title=State to honor Western Heritage Center, 6 others with humanities awards|url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/state-to-honor-western-heritage-center-others-with-humanities-awards/article_f76fbe61-f987-5ef3-9bdd-113d38c10bb5.html#ixzz2SG8WiYOt|accessdate=3 May 2013|newspaper=Billings Gazette|date=25 December 2000|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> In 2002, the WHC became the first Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum in the Northern Plains. Beginning in 2004, and running through 2009, WHC received federal appropriations from the [[United States Department of the Interior]] for the American Indian Tribal Histories Project, a program contributing to the preservation of [[Crow Nation|Crow]] and Northern [[Cheyenne]] tribal histories. The museum is one of six museums in Montana accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
The Western Heritage Center
==References==
▲The Western Heritage Center is committed to providing public programs at minimal or no cost. Programs include the monthly High Noon lecture and video series, teacher workshops, school traveling trunks, eight traveling exhibits, partnerships with regional museums, and active participation in local events. The WHC coordinates five to seven changing exhibits each year. The current feature exhibit, We’re Making History: Billings First 125 Years, launched the city’s anniversary commemoration in 2007. The Western Heritage publishes books, video materials, and education kits relating to regional history. The museum cares for 17,000 artifacts that illustrate and document Yellowstone River Valley history.
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Parmly Billings Memorial Library}}
*[http://www.ywhc.org/ Western Heritage Center]
{{National Register of Historic Places in Montana}}
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[[Category:Museums in Billings, Montana]]
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[[Category:Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Montana]]
[[Category:Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana]]
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