Galleries:
Dakotas History Gallery:
Inside the History Gallery you will be immersed with the history of the Middle Border Region (North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of adjoining states). You will be able to learn more about the lives of the Plains Indians, the Fur Trade, Dakota Territory, Railroading, Farming and Ranching, and the 1930′s Great Depression.
South Dakota author, Archer Gilfillan, lived in this sheep wagon for almost 18 years, between 1915 and 1933, when he herded sheep in Harding County, South Dakota.
Artists Galleries:
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I. Leland and Josephine Case Art Gallery - specializing in an eclectic display of Great Plains art from various artists;
II. Hargens Gallery – learn the story of one of America’s premiere illustrators of western storytelling, Charles Hargens Jr.
III. Howe Gallery – explore the life and creative genius of one of South Dakota’s greatest artists’, IháÅ‹ktÈŸuÅ‹waÅ‹na (Yanktonai) Dakota, Oscar Howe.
Featured at the Dakota Discovery Museum is the recreated studio of Charles Hargens. The Painting to the left is "Frontiersman with flintlock & arrow through hat"
Historic Village:
The Dakota Discovery Historic Village features an expanded railroad history of local rail operations of the Milwaukee Railroad in the Dimock Depot. Farwell Church is an example of unadorned, country worship of the early 20th century as well as a facility used today for small group worship, poetry readings, music performances and summer weddings. The Sheldon School illustrates education during the homesteading era of the Great Plains. The Beckwith House was home to the co-founder of the World’s Only Corn Palace, founded 1892. Also in the Village, a variety of early farm equipment.
The Sheldon Country School was built in 1884 and the first session of school was held in the spring of 1885.