Designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the National Museum of Forest Service History’s new hub transforms donated materials and expressive timber forms into a learning environment.
Museums are inherently didactic places, but at a new museum in the Mountain West, the walls, ceilings, details, and exhibitions are all made up of educational moments. The National Conservation Legacy Center of the National Museum of Forest Service History, when it opens this summer, will be the public-facing hub for the eponymous organization. The cultural venue—located in the wilderness-ringed city of Missoula, Montana—represents a literal convergence of medium and message, telling the United States Forest Service’s century-plus-old story, and much more, through its most prized material.
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