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National Scouting Museum, Philmont Scout Ranch, NM

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National Scouting Museum

Museum on Scouting history at Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico, with free public admission.

Philmont Scout Ranch, NM

About National Scouting Museum

The National Scouting Museum was founded in 1959 to preserve the history of the Scouting movement through collecting, organizing, interpreting, and displaying notable objects and stories. It moved to Philmont Scout Ranch in 2018 and also runs the Villa Philmonte, the Philmont Museum, and the Seton Memorial Library. Exhibits cover Scouting's influence on American culture, the life of co-founder Ernest Thompson Seton, Philmont's benefactor Waite Phillips, and the history and natural history of the former Maxwell Land Grant. Visitors can speak with docents, browse the library, and shop in the gift shop, which sells Southwest Native American crafts and local history books.

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