We often get asked what is happening to the schoolhouse, depot, cabin, and other buildings outside the Dakota Territorial Museum when we move to the Mead Cultural Education Center. The great news: those buildings are coming with us! We need your help to make it happen, though. It will be necessary to purchase some of the land surrounding the Mead building to place our historic buildings on. You can fund this with only $1 per square foot of land! Stop at the Museum today to “b

The Dakota Territorial Museum and the Mead Building need your help to buy a bus! We have the chance to buy a small used school bus to help present events, transport visitors for tours, and much more. We have raised most of the funds to purchase this bus and are ready to get going! If you would like to help with this project, please click here!! We are so excited for all the great new things we can do with this opportunity. If you have questions about the project or events ple

As we get ready for the move to the Mead, there are lots of objects in the current museum that need attention and documenting. Much of this very important work is helped by our volunteers. Later this month there will be an opportunity to learn about the basics of caring for the Museum collections and add your skills to our team of volunteers! We also have volunteer opportunities available in greeting visitors to the Museum, giving tours, and keeping the gift shop up and runni

We want to extend a big “thank you” to all our volunteers and the two-hundred people who came to make the second Shamrock ‘n Roll event a huge success! The lovely “Icehouse” painting by Jolene Steffen was the star of the evening, and a great time was had by all. We also raised some much-needed funds for the Mead Building restoration. This month we are continuing to get ready for the big move, and we will have a chance April 21 and 22 for members of the public to come learn ab