Museum at the Brig Ribbon Cutting

The Brig is one of the few structures that remain from the Farragut Naval Training Station, a major training base of the U.S. Navy during World War II. The area later became Farragut State Park where that history is preserved as part of Idaho’s state park system.

In use from 1942 to 1946, the Brig served as a confinement facility for unruly naval recruits with its barred windows and gates, jail cells and support facilities. The Brig is now managed by the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation. It is now the Museum at the Brig and houses boot camp, naval and war memorabilia dedicated to the nearly 300,000 naval recruits who received their basic training at the Farragut Naval Training Station.

However, in the 1960s, the Brig building suffered water damage. Replacing the roof and other work had been identified as critical to preserving the building and the museum for many years.

Now, as part of IDPR’s ongoing effort to catch up with much-needed maintenance, the Brig is ready to reopen, and your attendance at a soft reopening will help celebrate this significant preservation effort and those who made it possible.

A ribbon cutting will take place Thursday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. PST at Farragut State Park, located at 13550 ID-54, Athol, Idaho, 83801.

RSVP: FAR@idpr.idaho.gov