Entry No. 48 — the Missoula file — filed under: outdoor

Missoula Art Park

The Missoula Art Museum's outdoor gallery, opened in 2017, turns the downtown corner of Pine and Pattee into a free, walk-through sculpture space surrounding the museum. Exhibits rotate each spring and the park runs seasonally, roughly May through October, with the large-scale work out in the open day and night while it's on view. Past installations have included 'Contemporary Folk Animals,' a herd of steel creatures by Montana artists working in reused materials, like Bill Ohrmann's quilted-metal elk and a mountain goat on a flower-silhouette pedestal. Tables, benches, and plantings make it a place to linger.

The move: Catch the metal herd after dark when the downtown lights hit the steel, then duck into a nearby bar; pair it with the free Missoula Art Museum galleries next door during open hours.

📍 Before you go Free and outdoors anytime, but the installed art runs on a seasonal cycle (roughly spring through fall, like the farmers markets) and the featured works change.

• 📍 Missoula
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: Corner of Pine St and Pattee St (at the Missoula Art Museum), Missoula, MT 59802

Hours: Added 2026-06-24 — confirm current hours before you go.

⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.

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Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

last checked: 2026-06-24