Dickinson Museum Center
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The Dickinson Museum Center is an organization that preserves and presents history through a museum
complex in Dickinson, North Dakota
. The organization operates the museum center, which serves as a history museum for the city of Dickinson, Stark County
, and Southwest North Dakota
.
The museum consists of a city-owned, 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) park that includes multiple buildings and is managed in part by several non-profit organizations.
, Scandinavian, and Germans from Russia
heritage organizations.
The historic buildings include a house, train depot, general store, church, and school. The reproduced buildings include a print shop, an ethnic German-Russian stone house, a Czech town hall, a Scandinavian Stabbur, and a blacksmith shop. Other structures in the park include the Heritage Pavilion picnic shelter, a veteran's chapel, an oil derrick, a coal mine, a Northern Pacific train caboose, a windmill, and restrooms.
, and includes threshing machines, tractors and other horse-drawn and mechanized farm equipment. The museum is operated by the Stark County Historical Society, and is located in Prairie Outpost Park.
Dakota Dinosaur Museum
This museum houses thousands of rock, mineral, and fossil specimens including a complete Triceratops
skeleton. It is a separately managed organization from the Dickinson Museum Center.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
complex in Dickinson, North Dakota
Dickinson, North Dakota
As of the census of 2000, there were 16,010 people, 6,517 households, and 4,020 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,690.7 inhabitants per square mile . There were 7,033 housing units at an average density of 742.7 per square mile...
. The organization operates the museum center, which serves as a history museum for the city of Dickinson, Stark County
Stark County, North Dakota
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 22,636 people, 8,932 households, and 5,877 families residing in the county. The population density was 17 people per square mile . There were 9,722 housing units at an average density of 7 per square mile...
, and Southwest North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
.
The museum consists of a city-owned, 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) park that includes multiple buildings and is managed in part by several non-profit organizations.
Joachim Regional Museum
The Joachim Regional Museum features local art and history exhibits, and is managed by the Southwestern North Dakota Museum Foundation. Permanent exhibits include a Western art gallery and a dollhouse. The building includes the Osborn Reading and Research Room.Prairie Outpost Park
Five historic and five reproduction buildings are located in the park east of the museum. Several other groups manage buildings and/or host events in the park throughout the year including CzechCzech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...
, Scandinavian, and Germans from Russia
Germans from Russia
Germans from Russia refers to the large numbers of ethnic Germans who emigrated from the Russian Empire, peaking in the late 19th century. The upper Great Plains in the United States and southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan have large areas populated primarily of descendants of Germans from Russia...
heritage organizations.
The historic buildings include a house, train depot, general store, church, and school. The reproduced buildings include a print shop, an ethnic German-Russian stone house, a Czech town hall, a Scandinavian Stabbur, and a blacksmith shop. Other structures in the park include the Heritage Pavilion picnic shelter, a veteran's chapel, an oil derrick, a coal mine, a Northern Pacific train caboose, a windmill, and restrooms.
Pioneer Machinery Museum
This museum focuses on the early agricultural and ranching history of Stark CountyStark County, North Dakota
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 22,636 people, 8,932 households, and 5,877 families residing in the county. The population density was 17 people per square mile . There were 9,722 housing units at an average density of 7 per square mile...
, and includes threshing machines, tractors and other horse-drawn and mechanized farm equipment. The museum is operated by the Stark County Historical Society, and is located in Prairie Outpost Park.
Dakota Dinosaur MuseumDakota Dinosaur MuseumThe Dakota Dinosaur Museum is a dinosaur museum located in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. The museum was first proposed in 1987 and it opened in 1994. The museum is run by volunteers....
This museum houses thousands of rock, mineral, and fossil specimens including a complete TriceratopsTriceratops
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...
skeleton. It is a separately managed organization from the Dickinson Museum Center.