Dakota Discovery Museum — Attraction in Mitchell

Very nice little museum. The downstairs has well designed, interesting exhibit about the history of the area. Including native history, early immigrants to the area, the dust bowl years, pioneer and farming exhibits. The ancient threshing machine, settlers cabin and sheep wagon are quite cool. Upstairs there’s a great exhibit on the artist Charles Hargens, who grew up in the area. They moved his entire studio from outside of Philadelphia back to this museum. His style is very much like Norman Rockwell, focusing on americana and early western themes. They did a nice job of explaining the process by which an artist creates a work, from old pictures and photographs to the final painted work. There’s some really great western themed...

Went to visit the church and was greeted very kindly by the gentleman running the place that day. He took time in the early morning hours to let us into the church and gave us a tour of the church and one-room schoolhouse. He was very kind to my children and answered all of their questions with great patience. He was very...

This was an amazing exhibit! So informative and very well curated! Exceeded our expectations and I truly learned so much. The upstairs gallery is equally excellent. Highly recommend a visit. It wasn't busy so we were able to take our time. The price was...