Lambert Museum

02/14/2026

Happy Valentines day!

12/21/2022

Our Lady of the Rockies....

On this day in Montana history in 1985, the Montana Standard proclaimed, “Lady Mission Accomplished.” Butte mine electrician Bob O’Bill originally wanted to build a five-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in his backyard to celebrate his wife’s recovery from cancer. The project grew in scope and Bob’s backyard project became a community-wide effort to install a 90-foot-tall statue of Mary on one the mining city’s highest peaks, Saddle Rock (elevation 8,510 feet).

Construction began in December 1979. Bob’s friend, welder Leroy Lee, designed, sculpted, and welded the statue’s three pieces together, despite having no sculpting experience. Appropriately, the Lady’s interior support system is an upside-down mine shaft. Volunteers helped blast the road to the top of the Rockies and other residents raised funds. All labor, materials, heavy machinery, and even the land where the statue stands, was donated -- a remarkable achievement given Butte’s severely depressed economy at the time.

As thousands watched, on Dec. 17, 1985, a helicopter lifted the head, the final piece of the statue of Our Lady of the Rockies, up to Saddle Rock. Today, the statue is a memorial to all women, especially mothers. Find information on summer tours and memorial tiles at https://www.ourladyoftherockies.com/.

Photo credit: Montana Standard file photo

09/07/2022

The Burgess Garage

08/19/2022

The Lambert Historical Society and the Lambert Museum are deeply grateful to John D. McVay and the McVay family for donating Dr. Homer R. McVay's treasure chest of dental equipment to the Museum. Dr. Mcvay opened his dental office in Lambert in 1916, sharing an office with Dr. Armour in the present day Country Store. Read about the McVay family in Courage Enough, page 964. Thank you again, John.

08/18/2022

This beautiful painting by Pamela Cayer Drewry of the Three Buttes is displayed in the Lambert Museum. The drawing by John Audubon of what he called the three Mamelles while hunting Antelope and Buffalo during a journey from Fort Union on July 26, 1843. From the book, Audubon and his Journals.

08/17/2022

Does anyone have any idea, when this was and where it was located?

08/06/2022

Advertising flyer

07/05/2022

A fairly typical response to July 4th activity. From the Arnston family collection.

07/04/2022

Have a wonderful Independence Day weekend. From the Beatrice Burkes collection.

07/03/2022

"9 times out of 10 Horseplay ends in tears," Auntie Joyce always said, and with a brother like Arne Kvaalen you can see why. 😃
From the Kvaalen et.al collection.

07/02/2022

Town's a busy place today. Lambert FFA members doing their part to spruce things up for the 4th of July.

07/02/2022

An awful lot of folks milling around Lambert this morning. Makes you wonder what's going on? 😉
From the Kvaalen et.al collection.