To support the construction of a new wing to house the Winchester Arms Museum.

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and programs on Plains Indian cultures as documented in a collection of materials from the pre-reservation and early reservation periods.

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center will present "Enduring Legacies of the Great Plains: The Paul Dyck Collection," a national touring exhibition, catalogue, and accompanying interpretive educational materials and programming that focuses on the arts, cultures, and lives of Native people of the Plains as revealed through the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection. This collection has long been considered by scholars of Native American art to be one of the most comprehensive privately held assemblages of pre-reservation and early reservation arts and related historical materials documenting the lives and cultures of the Native people of the Great Plains. Planning for the exhibition will involve consultation with a team consisting of humanities scholars, an educator, an exhibition designer, Plains Indian Museum Advisory Board members, and Museum staff. This team will create, develop, evaluate, and refine all aspects of the exhibition, catalogue, and programming.

To support planning for an exhibition and catalogue on the Battle of Wounded Knee and the significance of the Ghost Dance in American Indian history.

To support a traveling exhibition, catalog, and educational programs developed by the Museums West consortium to examine the evolution of popular images of American Indians from 1820 to the present.

Consultation with scholars, educators, and an historic building specialist to reinterpret the Buffalo Bill portion of the Center and to present Buffalo Bill as both a product of the West and a shaper of its image in popular consciousness.

An implementation project to upgrade environmental controls and improve fire and security systems at the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association’s Cody Firearms Museum, which houses a collection of 7,000 firearms and more than 20,000 related objects chronicling the development of firearms from 1425 to the present.  The collection would be stored and then reinstalled after the museum undergoes a complete renovation.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West will improve collections care and infrastructure in the 45,000 square-foot Cody Firearms Museum (CFM). The CFM holds more than 7,000 firearms, the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world and the only firearms museum that has earned American Alliance of Museums accreditation. Planning is underway for a complete reinstallation of the CFM, which will interpret the story of firearms as a continuous narrative about people, ingenuity, and artistry. While the reinstallation process is underway, and CFM objects have been moved to safe temporary storage, engineers will connect CFM galleries to the Central Plant at the Center of the West, eliminating outdated boilers and providing clean, efficient atomizer humidification in the CFM. The project will also eliminate deficiencies in the fire and security systems of the CFM.

To support the improvement of environmental conditions, security, fire detection, lighting, and storage for the preservation of the center's collections, which focus on the history and art of the American West.

Preparation of a thematic, illustrated digital edition of the papers of Buffalo Bill Cody, a symbol of the American West in the popular imagination. (24 months)

At the dawn of the age of celebrity in the late nineteenth century, the public persona that William F. Cody created in his thirty years as head of the touring show, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, was central to a durable and vivid mythic vision of the vanishing American frontier. In the American public imagination, William F. Cody had become to many the embodiment of American promise and American virtue. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center will develop a digital edition of The Papers of William F. Cody containing material gathered from multiple repositories and organized into three thematic modules. The goal of The Papers of William F. Cody is to collect, edit, and publish online an open-access, keyword-searchable, digital edition that covers the period from William F. Cody's birth in 1846 to his death in 1917.

The retention of five staff members to further develop and implement a teacher training program in Native American studies.

On March 10, 2017, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed House Bill 76/House Enrolled Act 119, which aims to educate all Wyoming students about American Indian tribes of the region, including the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. The resulting education standards are required to be implemented beginning in the fall of 2021. However, the state has not allocated funding for professional development of Wyoming's social studies teachers. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West's Native Education Outreach Specialist has turned full attention to developing and delivering a program that will provide the state's educators the knowledge and support they need to deliver this cultural content adequately. The Center and tribal and education partners created a six-module Professional Development program which is currently being provided to two cohorts of teachers and will offer four cohorts programs in 2022. Early feedback shows the program and content have been very well received.