Start your visit with a self-guided tour through the museum and interior galleries. Interpretive nodes in the museum depict life at the Fort in the late 1800's. Enjoy a short documentary that explains the history of the fort.

Following the galleries, travel back in time to the late 1800’s in our authentic period rooms, complete with our brand new Voices from the Past program, which gives you the opportunity to listen in each room to an audio tour being presented by the various scoundrels and lawmen who called Fort Whoop-Up home.

The Fort is constantly updated to improve understanding of how the its history impacted Albertan and Western Canadian life.

Fort Whoop-Up Exhibits

Crowshoe Gallery

Enjoy this gallery displaying the evolution of life in the Belly River Area. Travel back in time from the ranch era and end of Fort Whoop-Up to before it existed out on the banks of the Belly River. Learn about the history of the site and some of the unique terms and items at the fort before having a chance to view them first hand in the period fort itself.

Thunderchief Gallery

Offering a firsthand perspective into the Blackfoot Culture, this room interprets the lives and rituals of the primary customers of Fort Whoop-Up through a vast collection of plains culture artifacts and displays. Many of the artifacts in this room come from the descendants of Thunder Cheif, a war chief who took part in The Last Great Indian Battle, which occurred in the river valley where the fort is currently located in 1870.

Shockley Firearms Gallery

View our vast collection of firearms in this gallery, with over two-hundred pieces on display and more to come in the upcoming months. Take a walk back through time in the evolution of firearms with many pieces that would have been used in the fur trade era, and those from well before and even some from after.

Period Fort

Wander through the fort as it would have looked back in the late 1800’s and listen to the voices from the scoundrels of Fort Whoop-Up as they give you and audio tour of each room with our Voices from the Past program. Fifteen fully furnished areas and rooms will give you insight as to what life at the fort would have been like.