Southwest Region
Billings County Museum
Features frontier farm and ranch memorabilia, including an extensive barbed wire collection, a restored pioneer courtroom and jail, a collection of military and western firearms, and information on the history of Billings County. A Blue Star Museum.
475 4th Street
Medora, ND 58645
Phone: (701) 623-4829
E-mail: bcm@midstate.net
Website: billingscountymuseum.org
Dacotah Clayworks
Studio potter Robin Reynolds offers rustic pottery featuring local Hebron clay, native clay slip glazes, and mid-fire stoneware. Located in a retired Texaco station, the Dacotah Clayworks showroom can be found on the Old Red/Old Ten Scenic Byway. Visitors
are welcome to learn more about how shapeless clods of North Dakota clay are transformed into functional,
well-crafted wares.
425 South Elk Street
Hebron, ND 58638
Phone: (701) 878-4060
E-mail: robin58638@gmail.com
Website: ndclay.net
Dickinson State University Mind's Eye Art Gallery
Located on the main campus of Dickinson State University in the lower level of Klinefelter Hall. The gallery features a variety of fine arts mediums created by visiting artists, local artists, and the University's faculty and students.
291 Campus Drive
Dickinson, ND 58601
Phone: (701) 483-2154
Website: dickinsonstate.edu
High Plains Cultural Center
The newly opened High Plains Cultural Center, a 15,000 square feet multi-purpose community center, hosts arts and humanities events, performances, and exhibitions.
194 Central Avenue South
Killdeer, ND 58640
Phone: (701) 764-6533
Website: highplainscommunitycenter.org
North Dakota Cowboy Hall Of Fame
The character and legacy of the American West comes to life inside the organization’s gold buckle facility, the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame – Center of Western Heritage & Cultures: Native American, Ranching and Rodeo. The 15,000-square foot interpretive center features permanent and traveling western culture exhibits, a Hall of Honorees, theater, gift shop, archives, 1,400 square feet of multi-purpose meeting space, and a 5,000 square foot open-air patio.
250 Main Street
Medora, ND 58645
Phone: (701) 623-2000
E-mail: heritage@northdakotacowboy.com
Website: northdakotacowboy.com
Prairie Fire Pottery
Tama Smith has been a professional potter since 1988. In 1995 she and her husband, Jerry DeMartin, relocated their business to Beach, North Dakota where it was renamed, Prairie Fire Pottery. Today this small town pottery shop on the Montana border is a popular stop with tourists traveling across the western High Plains.
127 East Main Street
Beach, ND 58621
Phone: (701) 872-3855
Website: prairiefirepottery.com
Ukrainian Cultural Institute
The Ukrainian Cultural Institute features folk art cultural exhibits and religious displays and houses a research library. The beautiful hand-crafted "Psyanky" Easter Eggs are showcased. Embroidered cloths adorn the walls next to the heritage paintings of the early settlers. Varenyky or pyrohy, better known as "cheese buttons," are produced in the kitchen each day. Each July, the Ukrainian Festival showcases the history and the "Stepovi Dity" Ukrainian dancers in their colorful costumes.
1221 West Villard Street
Dickinson, ND 58602
Phone: (701) 483-1486
E-mail: uci@ndsupernet.com
Website: ucitoday.org