Museums Natural History
South Dakota

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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.