The Mead Cultural Education Center (MCEC) is hosting a workshop called “Care of Collections at Home: Documents” on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019. The workshop, which runs from 2-4pm at the MCEC, will give participants the skills they need to preserve documents like wills, land...

Progress continues on the third floor of the Mead Cultural Education Center.  It won’t be long before our conference rooms will be ready for meetings. With so much changing throughout the building, where has the year gone? We have a lot of great things coming up. Ticke...

The workers at the Mead Cultural Education Center are getting ready for another large collection move this month. This will not be the final move, but we are getting close to being moved out the West Side Park location. We truly appreciate everyone’s support during thi...

In keeping with historic preservation, workers at the Mead Cultural Education Center recently replaced a corner piece on the second floor veranda. They did such an excellent job that you would never know it replaced a badly damaged piece. The Yankton County Historical...

What a wonderful opening weekend for the Yankton State Hospital Original Water Colors & Oils Collection exhibit. It was wonderful to see so many people come out over Riverboat Days weekend. We would like to say thank you to Lois Varvel for donating the picture railing...

The Yankton County Historical Society is asking for your help. Your mission should you choose to accept it will be to help us find a very special portrait. In the early 1900s, Louis Janousek painted a portrait of Dr. Leonard C. Mead that hung somewhere at the Yankton S...

We are so excited to have objects returning to this beautiful building. This week we returned a bust of Hiawatha to our foyer.  When we looked really closely to a picture of Dr. Mead in the foyer, we can see this bust in the background. This is just one of many pieces...

Preparations are being made to return some of the historic paintings that once hung in the buildings of the Yankton State Hospital. Thanks to a partnership with the University of South Dakota, beautiful paintings by Louis Janousek and other well-known artists will once...

It has been an exciting week at the Mead Cultural Education Center. We finally have all the bugs worked out and our phones are operational. If you need to contact us, please call 605-665-3898. Join us this Riverboat Days at the Mead Cultural Education Center! We will b...

Take a break from the summer heat! Come out to the Mead Cultural Education Center and visit the Journeying Forward exhibit or bring the kids and enjoy the Childrens Transportation Museum. The Mead Cultural Education is a cool, safe summer stay-cation location. Check ou...