National Bird Dog Museum

The National Bird Dog Museum is a repository of information, art photography and memorabilia reflecting a variety of pointing dog and retriever breeds, hunting, field trial activities, and shooting sports. Here the tangible reminders of more than 100 years of sporting tradition await your exploration. Among portraits and exhibits contained in the museum, you will find history's most famous bird dogs represented. Many works of notable sporting dog artists and sculptors are displayed.

You will find many paintings and photographic displays throughout the Museum that represent many of the most famous bird dogs of the past hundred years.

The goal of the museum is to represent the many breeds of sporting dog, the history of the National Field Trials that are held each year at the Ames Plantation and a bit of the history of Grand Junction itself.   The effect of these efforts is a place where history comes alive, visitors can wrap themselves in the past and imagine what it was like to be a part of the rich and sometimes colorful history of field trialing.

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