North Dakota Museums to Stir Your Senses

Accredited fine art museum in the heart of historic downtown Fargo. Cafe Muse, The Store, exhibitions, performances, special events, tours, classes. Plains Art Museum is available for receptions, meeting, and banquets. Full-service catering and AV equipment available in a brilliantly renovated, historic, yet modern art museum.

Discover 100 million years of regional history from the Cretaceous Age to contemporary times in the permanent exhibit gallery. Pembina State Museum also features temporary exhibit gallery, museum store, seven-story-tall viewing tower, meeting room rentals, and tourist information.

The Turtle Mountain Chippewa Heritage Center contain artifacts and artwork helping preserve the culture of the Chippewa, Cree and Michif (Metis) people native to the area of North Dakota near the Canadian border. Artwork and historical artifacts on site.

The Museum educates the public of the historical and present-day roles of wildlife law enforcement and natural resources conservation. The Hall of Honors is dedicated to wildlife enforcement officers who have lost their lives while serving. The museum houses a wide and interesting variety of animal pelts, mounted animals, horns and antlers for visitors to see and touch.

Check out the rich history of aviation in the region without leaving the ground in this museum! See one of the largest airworthy World War II aircraft collections in the Upper Midwest, featuring over 60 aircraft and 8,000 artifacts, such as photos, periodicals, flight gear, and equipment on display.

The North American Bison Discovery Center (formerly the National Buffalo Museum) is devoted to the cultural and natural history of bison and the prairie. The museum portrays the evolution of the buffalo through its displays and exhibits. Look for the live herd of buffalo and the rare albino buffalo, White Cloud.

The North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum recently completed an expansion project that more than doubled its size. Thousands of artifacts and specimens, high-tech displays, and interactive exhibits help tell the story of our state.

The museum has railroad artifacts, railroad pictures, Railroad Hall of Fame, 5 acres with rolling stock and 3,000-square-foot railroad displays. Free admission. New exhibits include 1890 Steele Depot and SW diesel switcher engine.

The Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum featuring Peggy Lee is a world-class museum showcasing two treasures in one: the Midland Continental Railroad, and the high-school home of music legend and North Dakota native, Peggy Lee. 

Museum serves as heritage center to display and preserve history and culture of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people.

The Center of Western Heritage and Cultures: Native American, Ranching and Rodeo in Medora provides the history and heritage of the trail drivers, homesteaders, rodeo stars, Native Americans and the horse's impact on plains culture.

The museum is one of the major cultural centers in Bowman and the surrounding area and has artifacts of cowboy, Native American and military history, unique gardens, other local artifacts, fossils, dinosaurs, and guided tours of fossil sites.

Blue skies prevail year round at the Fargo Air Museum, a premier flying museum in the Upper Midwest. The rotation of historic flyable airplanes include P-51 Mustang, Duggy - "the Smile in the Sky" airplane, TBM Avenger, Corsair, L Birds, PT-19 Fairchild, Pitts Special, Wright Flyer replica, Ag Cat and more.

Three galleries house exhibitions of regional, national and international art and recognized nationally for its commissioning of landmark works of art anchored in the landscape, history and culture of the Northern Plains. 

The Badlands Dinosaur Museum features 11 full-scale dinosaur skeletons inside and two outside. Prairie Outpost Park and Jochim Regional Museum.

Prairie Village & Museum features 21 historic buildings and seven exhibition halls arranged around a quaint village square. Touring the museum is like taking a walk through a turn-of-the-century prairie town. Historic buildings include the Penn (ND) Depot, York (ND) Jail, Pleasant Lake (ND) Bank, Silva (ND) Consolidated School and much more.