Malta Court

Malta Court consists of the Malta Justice Court and the Malta City Court both of which lie within the Seventeenth judicial district of Montana. The justice court handles civic and traffic infractions occurring throughout Phillips county with the exception of those occurring within the city limits of Malta. US 2 and US 191, running through Phillips county cross in Malta. US 2 runs through the Northern part of Malta and meets with US 191 which runs through the center of town.

The Phillips County museum has an interesting way of exhibiting its collections of tools, toys, instruments, clothing, furniture, and historic photographs. In order to give visitors an idea of how these items fit into life in the early years of the county; they are they are arranged in the life-size replicas of a cowboy bunkhouse, one-room schoolhouse, church, doctor's office, kitchen and mercantile establishment. Also on display are Indian artifacts of the local Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes. The museum is a member of the Montana Dinosaur Trail and has on exhibit its real life dinosaur collection consisting of an original brachylophosaurus skeleton, a dynamically posed Albertosaurus and other locally discovered fossils of interest. The museum has not forgotten its outlaw past; exhibiting artifacts from crimes committed by local outlaws including photographs, newspaper clippings, wanted posters, and pistols. Next to the museum you will find the restored H.G. Robinson House, circa 1903, and "walk through time" garden. The historic Robinson home is one of those turn-of-the-century mail-order homes shipped out on the railroad and built on the frontier prairie.