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Badlands Petrified Gardens
Kadoka, South Dakota

Natural History

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc
Hill City, South Dakota

Natural History, Science

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc., has long been recognized as the world’s finest paleontological and earth science supply house. The Institute’s primary business is supplying professionally prepared fossils, fossil casts, and mineral specimens for research, teaching, and display. Our staff have been the leaders in developing new techniques and new materials for use in fossil exploration, collection, preparation, and exhibition.

Black Hills Petrified Forest
Piedmont, South Dakota

Natural History

Everything Prehistoric Fossil Gallery
Rapid City, South Dakota

Natural History

Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Natural History

Mammoth Site of Hot Springs
Hot Springs, South Dakota

Archaeology, General, Natural History, Science

For centuries the bones lay buried, until discovered by chance in 1974 while excavating for a housing development, earth moving equipment exposed South Dakota's greatest fossil treasure. Fortunately, through the work of local citizens, the Mammoth Site was preserved. Today it is the world's largest Columbian mammoth exhibit, and a world-renown research center for Pleistocene studies.

National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
Waubay, South Dakota

Natural History

W.H. Over Museum
Vermillion, South Dakota

History, Natural History

Ben Reifel Visitor Center
Interior, South Dakota

Natural History

Black Hills Mining Museum
Lead, South Dakota

History, Natural History, Specialized

Call of the Wild Museum and Gifts
Hill City, South Dakota

Natural History

Gary Historical Association
Gary, South Dakota

Cemetery, Children's, Culture, Historic House, Historical Society, Library, Natural History, Park

Museum, log cabin, country school, old postoffice and general store, nature area, trout in creek on property, old jail house

Kampeska Heritage Museum
Watertown, South Dakota

History, Natural History

Museum of Geology
Rapid City, South Dakota

Natural History

South Dakota State Agricultural Heritage Museum
Brookings, South Dakota

Culture, History, Historic House, Library, Natural History, Science, Specialized, University

The museum tells the story of South Dakota's vast and varied agricultural past and the determination it took to survive on the land. Visitors will leave understanding the important role of agriculture in South Dakota's past, present and future.

MUSEUM CONFERENCES

Oregon Museum Association 2024 Conference

September 8, 2024 - September 10, 2025

North Bend, Oregon

2025 California Association of Museums Conference

February 18 - 22, 2025

San Fransico, California

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