"Our Vintage Christmas event was a huge success thanks to the Yankton Community! We will have our vintage toys exhibit up for just a little while longer, so there's still a chance for you to come see our collection, our beautiful Hall of Trees, and the lovely holiday decorations at the Mead. As we usher in a new year, we will be busy planning for our Mead Mardi Gras Masquerade for February 29th, preparing our educational programming schedule, continuing with restoration pr

"This week at the Mead, our team has been busy installing UV filtering window films. The museum has UV filtering shades installed on all of our windows already, but we take the preservation and care of our archival pieces very seriously. We are going the extra mile by installing the additional new filter films to ensure that our artifacts don't succumb to damaging light. Whether it's a bison hide, a Sioux Pow Wow Dress, a picture of J.B.S. Todd, a landscape painting commis

At the Mead, our Registrar and Graphic Designer, Sara Kruse, has been hard at work designing not only our flyers and posters for upcoming events, but also many pieces for our next exhibit. "Yankton State Hospital: Minds, Methods, and Medicine" is set to open in Spring of 2020. This week, thanks to a generous donation from Board member Gloria Becker made in memory of her mother Hazel Nelson, Sara now has a new, faster computer that is equipped with all the bells and whistle