Cultural Amenities & Places Of Worship

Enrich Your Experience: Cultural Offerings

Billings has the strongest arts scene in eastern Montana, built around a historic theater, a regional art museum, and a busy downtown. You can catch a Broadway tour, a symphony concert, or a community theater production in the same month.

Performing Arts

Alberta Bair Theater: Opened in 1931 as a Fox Theatre, this Art Deco venue seats about 1,400 and hosts Broadway tours, dance, and touring musicians.
Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale: Performs at the Alberta Bair Theater and outdoors at Symphony in the Park.
Billings Studio Theatre: Community productions from musicals to contemporary plays
Babcock Theatre: Historic downtown venue for film and live events
NOVA Center for the Performing Arts: Local theater productions

Museums and Galleries

Yellowstone Art Museum: Founded in 1964, with more than 7,400 works and a celebrated Montana Collection
Western Heritage Center: Smithsonian affiliate housed in the 1901 Parmly Billings Library
Moss Mansion Historic House Museum: 1903 home with original furnishings
Yellowstone County Museum: History of the Yellowstone River Basin
Northcutt Steele Gallery at MSU Billings: Contemporary and student exhibitions

Public Art

The Downtown Billings Public Art Program has added murals, sculptures, and installations across the urban core. Pieces range from the "Greetings from Billings" postcard mural to Indigenous-inspired works.

Cultural Festivals

Event	Timing
Strawberry Festival	July
MontanaFair	August
Magic City Blues Festival	August
MINT Film Festival	September
NILE Rodeo and Stock Show	October
Downtown ArtWalk	Recurring

Culinary Culture

Billings Brew Trail: Nine breweries, three distilleries, a cider mill, and a winery
Walking brewery district downtown

Finding Spiritual Solace: Places of Worship

Faith has shaped Billings since its early years. St. Vincent Regional Hospital itself was founded by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth in 1898. Today the city has congregations across many traditions.

Catholic

Billings shares the seat of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings. St. Patrick's became a co-cathedral in 1980.

St. Patrick Co-Cathedral
Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church
St. Bernard Catholic Church
St. Pius X Catholic Church
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church

Protestant and Other Christian

First Presbyterian Church
Lutheran, Baptist, and nondenominational congregations across the city
Church of Christ in Billings
Seventh-day Adventist congregation

Latter-day Saints

Billings Montana Temple, on Temple Place

Jewish

Congregation Beth Aaron: Reform congregation incorporated in 1919, the only Jewish congregation in Billings. It opened its current synagogue in 2005.