Old Idaho Penitentiary

Museums & Galleries in Boise

Explore the facility that housed some of the West’s most notorious criminals for 100 years. Tour solitary confinement, cell blocks, and the gallows while walking through 30 buildings that are part of this experience. The museum also houses the extensive J. Curtis Earl Memorial Exhibit of Arms and Armaments, a collection of thousands of antique guns and weapons donated to the State of Idaho.