GATCHELL MUSEUM

Jim Gatchell died 5 June 1954. His family donated the collection, which he had gathered and housed in his Main Street drug store. The County donated the land and the building funds were donated. The Johnson County Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum opened in June of 1957. In 1991 the Gatchell Museum Board of Trustees, Inc. was formed. This is a non-profit (IRS 501 (c)(3)) Wyoming coporation which serves as a support foundation for the museum. In 1989 the Museum began conversion work on the adjacent building, which had been built as a Carneige Library in the early 1900s.