The Fort Robinson History Center at 3200 West Highway 20 near Crawford is run by History Nebraska, which opened a branch museum at the fort in 1955. The post began in 1874 as a temporary camp during the Indian Wars, named for Lieutenant Levi Robinson, and became a fort in 1878.
In 1919 Fort Robinson became an Army Quartermaster remount depot that bought and trained horses for the cavalry, and by 1943 it held about 12,000 horses. A K-9 Corps training center opened there in the fall of 1942 and received about 14,000 dogs for training during World War II, and a prisoner-of-war camp was built in 1943. The Army decided to leave in 1947, and the post ended its military use in 1948 after about 74 years.
Seasonal hours, May 1 to September 2, are daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; off-season hours are Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.