One of the best small museums we' ve ever visited. Very interesting!

Well kept museum with unique exhibits

Wealth of information! My kids lived looking at all those articles with amazement! Equipments, vehicles and day to day items have a wonderful picture of how it has been. A glimpse of the olden days.

Free and quite interesting if you enjoy local history. Many oddities to ponder and the Ford tractor converted to a snow machine is inspirational. Can't steal it, so you gotta make your own.

Very nice place to visit. Full of old machines,and equipment. The entrance building has the thing that where used by early settlers. There is a caboose there it is well worth looking into fully equipped inside. The museum is free to walk through. The lady at the desk was very pleasant and don't forget to sign in the guest register.

This museum is staffed and run entirely by volunteers and you can tell they're really passionate about it. I was driving through on a Sunday and I was surprised to see that it was open because most of the museums in Wyoming are open Tuesday-Saturday. Not only was it open, but the volunteer at the front desk gave me a little spiel about his favorite parts and then let me wander around on my own.

It's not a great big museum, but they've got a lot of neat little items, like a display of various types of barbed wire and a silo that used to be used for burning sawdust. The building itself used to be the train depot for a railway line that was the slowest built line in at least the U. S.

If you like small-town or house museums, you will probably enjoy this one; a lot of love has gone into putting it and keeping it together. There's no fee but they accept donations.

Great collection of items!!!

If it wasn't for the fact that there are every bit of 278 people in this little hamlet, you could be forgiven if you completely by-passed this Historical Museum on the outskirts of the burgeoning metropolis known as Centennial, Wyoming. The roar of the dense traffic (an average of about 5-7 cars per hour) could lead you to worry as to whether crossing the oncoming lane of traffic on a narrow country lane is a safe bet. Well, worry no longer even though there are no actual plans to add a traffic light, additional stop sign, or even a blinking yellow crosswalk to this picturesque town.

After an approximate 25 mile drive from Laramie, the mountains start getting bigger in your windshield - well, because they are getting closer. As you come down into the entrance of the valley, you begin to get the idea that you could actually live and retire here.

Before you decide to do that, you really need to stop at this museum located at the entrance to the town just wear the signs warn the deer, elk, and occasional tourist to slow down to about 30. Warning: Not slowing down will cause you to miss the museum, the ice cream shop, the coffee drive-thru, the steak houses, the tavern, the little store, and might even get you a ticket from the lone policeman who sits in his patrol car just past the steak restaurant on the left. Be warned as it is definitely a speed trap and Barney Fife will stop you and throw you in the clink for trying to destroy this pristine haven with your Co2 emissions. It does not matter that it probably emits less than the flatulent cow herds scattered around town.

Back to the museum that is on the left hand side of the road, DON'T MISS IT! It is run by volunteers who also recommend that you don't miss it. The people of the town don't want you to miss it. In fact, if Centennial had a mayor, they would probably campaign on the promise to bring more traffic to the Nici Self Historical Museum. So, DON'T MISS IT!

Seriously, the museum is free but does accept donations to help keep the doors open, so contribute as much as you feel you can. The museum continues to add quaint exhibitions that show you things like the history of the town, the history of the mine which is now closed, and the ranching heritage of past generations. There are several very large ranches in the area that are still in operation.

The exhibits also include items like a clawfoot metal bathtub, uniforms and outfits from over 100 years ago, an old train caboose, old fire engines, horse-drawn wagons, a nice wood-working shop exhibit, and even a distant relative of Mater of "Cars" fame sits ready to take on the next winter with his skis and tracks.

Having been a funeral director in the past, it was also of interest that there is only one grave in this entire area and it is located at the museum. The grass is fairly well kept and it is fenced off, but no other cemeteries. The caretakers did not even seem to know why this is because many old towns even have some semblance of a Boot Hill.

While you can probably see everything in less than an hour, you could easily spend closer to 2 hours reading all the interesting pieces of trivia and the history of the hardy generations who came to live where very few were willing to live at the entrance to some of the most beautiful country in the world.

Really cool museum... loved by its people.

Small, but a nice museum for Centennial, a town of 270 people.

Not the best museum in the world, not the best in the USA, or even the best in the state, but it is the best museum in this town!

It is very well run by volunteers and works how all museums should, free to the public with donations to help keep it open.

Despite living in Texas, I have stopped here three times. A good way to spend an hour or two remembering how my grandparents lived.

Very interesting

It's a very interesting Museum. If you want to learn about Centennial.

Very neat little museum!!

As you drive into Centennial this is your first stop. Beautiful grounds and interesting museum telling you about the history of the town. Will I Go Back? Sure why not

A unique museum in this small town--the volunteers working there, were helpful and friendly. Don't drive by!

We passed this museum by and thought "Let's go back and check it out". We were pleasantly surprised. There were lots of artifacts and info about the area plus many old buildings to roam into such as a barn with lots of equipment including an old tractor, railroad depot, school, blacksmith shop, beehive burner and more. The ladies inside were very nice and we found out that one of them had moved there from Texas, the state we are from. It's so amazing to find something like this kind of in the middle of nowhere. Check it out while on your travels!

Great museum to stop at with very nice exhibits for all. Loved the trains and the old buildings. Worth the visit if you are in Centennial.

Kevin was great giving us a tour of the historical museum. Taking us to each building and explaining a lot of how life was like when Centennial was first developed.

Nici museum is a great place for every family and history buff to visit. It is well preserved, well run operation with several buildings to walk thru. The train caboose is in the most excellent condition I have ever seen. The town of Centennial has done a great job in saving pieces of history for our children and theirs also.

This is a museum run by volunteers. It's a bit of a hodge podge of relics donated, but it tells a warm and realistic history of the establishment of Centennial. Don't miss it if you want to better understand the area.

Wonderful locally developed and supported museum that captures the material history of life and industry in this frontier town. Rail car (caboose), antique farming equipment, household and other artifacts are among the many fascinating items displayed.

In the small mining town of Centennial, Wyoming. Displays on mining and rail road as well as early pioneer life in the Wyoming mountains

A lot of interesting stuff about the town of Centennial and how it came to be .... especially about the railroad's and how they were built.

At the base of the Snowy Mountains in Centennial you will find this museum. It is run by donations & staffed by volunteers. It has limited hours, so you will need to plan accordingly. The 1st time we were in town, they were closed. The next time we planned our day, so we could visit here.

There was a nice young man working here. He was friendly and helpful. This museum is located in an old railroad depot (National Register of Historic Places). There is much to see inside and outside. One interesting thing outside is a beehive burner that was once used a local sawmill. You can see it from a ways away. The Union Pacific caboose was neat. There is also antique farm equipment outside. And picnic tables if you want to sit a spell or have your lunch.

You will learn about this high mountain town - how important the railroad, mining, & ranching was to Centennial.

The museum was named in honor of a founding member - & her name was Bernice "Nici" Self. I am always so impressed with our western towns that support these lovely little museums. That is how you learn what went on so many years ago.