Finding Aids

You can search hundreds of detailed inventories for our archival, manuscript, government records, and photograph collections. Search our finding aids.

Digitized Newspapers

How to search, view, zoom, and print thousands of issues of Montana newspapers. Go to Digitized Montana Newspapers Online.

Discover Montana

• Locate and learn about any location on a zoomable map of Montana. Go to Montana Place Names.
• Explore significant sites in Montana’s history with the site and mobile app ExploreBig or contribute local district information.

Digital Collections

On the Montana Memory Project, discover 100,000 digitized books, yearbooks, diaries, letters, ads, and photographs. Check out our digital collections.  Visit the Digital Vault for searchable digital exhibits featuring MHS collections.