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Monday 12pm - 4pm Tuesday 12pm - 4pm Wednesday 12pm - 8pm Thursday 12pm - 4pm Friday 12pm - 4pm Saturday 12pm - 4pm Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Mead Museum

Name: Mead Museum
Address: 82 Mickelson Drive, Yankton, SD, 57078, US
Telephone: +16056653898
Price range: $
Rating: 4.8

Mead Museum provides an authentic historical experience of the Yankton area from pre-Dakota Territory Dr. Leonard C.
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Built in 1909, the Mead Building was originally used as patient housing for women as part of the Yankton State Hospital operations until the 1980’s when patient numbers dropped. Mead was the architect behind the Mead Building and many others on the historic campus. The building was designed to provide a home for women where they could be cared for with compassion and dignity. Between 2008 and 2018

, the Yankton County Historical Society and Mead Building Restoration Committee restored the historic Mead Building and moved its operations to the newly created Mead Museum. Today the Mead Museum houses over 45,000 historic artifacts. The museum features changing and traveling exhibits throughout the year and posts these scheduled exhibits on their website. Permanent exhibits include:
* Journeying Forward: Connecting Cultures features the history of the American Indian culture of the region through the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-1806
* Yankton State Hospital Minds, Methods, and Medicine features four rooms dedicated to the architectural history of the historic South Dakota Human Services Center, medical practices in mental health, day in the life of a Yankton State Hospital patient, farm therapy and staff life
* Children's Transportation Museum provides hands-on history experiences for children of every age

The Mead Museum is also opening an outdoor history experience called Heritage Park. We strongly recommend repeat visits to the Mead Museum as permanent and changing exhibits are being developed and added every year. Last, if you are looking for that something special, the Mead Museum does have a Mead Mercantile Gift Shop for your souvenir or gift giving needs.

11/01/2024

HALLWAY OF LOST HISTORY Can you identify any of these people, or what's going on in this photo?

11/01/2024

A full room at today’s Feed Your Mind noon event! Thank you to author Nathan Johnson for being our featured speaker.
Hint: His book “A Tour Guide to Yankton” makes a thoughtful Christmas gift. It’s for sale in our gift shop open noon-4pm M- Sat

10/31/2024

~You are Invited ~ TOMORROW
FEED YOUR MIND Friday, Nov 1st at noon. Nathan Johnson is the featured speaker and author of “A Tour Guide to Historic Yankton: Nine Routes Through the Dakotas' Territorial Capital"
Nathan will be talking about past Presidential visits, as well as long-forgotten Yankton 3rd Street special events.
Yankton Thrive

10/30/2024

Sign up to decorate a tree at this year's Hall of Trees!
https://bit.ly/2024HallofTrees
Convenient online form and payment options.
The 7th annual event opens Friday, November 29th!

10/29/2024

Did you know it's National Cat Day?
This week’s is postcard to Sarah Simmons from her friend Midge. She sent Sarah a Halloween themed postcard to Sarah wishing her “joyful Halloween”. The card depicts a witch, boy and black cat riding a broom.

10/29/2024

Thank you to all our overnight guests and Paranormal Variant at the Haunted Overnight Experience!

10/28/2024

So many books in our gift shop, including A Tour Guide to Historic Yankton by Nathan Johnson— our featured speaker at this Friday’s Feed Your Mind

10/28/2024

Haunted Overnight was Saturday night!

10/27/2024

What's on your calendar this week? Visit 3 floors of exhibits at the Mead Museum. Journeying Forward: Connecting Cultures Lewis & Clark exhibit; The Children's Transportation Museum; Yankton College galleries; Yankton State Hospital: Minds, Methods & Medicine - plus the Yankton Meridian Bridge Centennial display has been continued - as well as the Yankton Fire Department anniversary display.

10/26/2024

Mark your Calendar for the next FEED YOUR MIND on Friday, Nov 1st at noon. Nathan Johnson is the featured speaker, in a Q&A Ask the Author session, to find out what it took to research and write "A Tour Guide to Historic Yankton: Nine Routes Through the Dakotas' Territorial Capital"

10/25/2024

HALLWAY OF LOST HISTORY
No doubt a green thumb, but can you identify this man with these amazing plants?

10/24/2024

We're excited for the Haunted Overnight happening on Saturday night. Attendees are sure to have a spooky good time during the building tour, cemetery walk - and with Paranormal Variant and a tarot card reader.
https://bit.ly/3z1VSKw

10/23/2024

is the perfect time to thank the Benedictine Sisters of Sacred Heart Monastery who spent time with us at The Mead Museum today, learning about the Dakota Story exhibit that’s being developed. Grateful for the enormous impact they have made on our community and region!

10/23/2024

This week’s is a poster from Irene Consolidated Schools. On October 31, 1930, Irene School held a Halloween Carnival full of “fun and frolic”. They planned two performances “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Gruesome Mr. Bluebeard”. A night parade, circus, minstrels, dancing camels, golf, spooks and stiffs from the morgue.

10/21/2024

It’s and time to showcase some items for the kids! We’re open Monday- Saturday noon to 4pm.

10/20/2024

People enjoyed the Haunted History Tours these past 2 nights. The haunting season continues next Saturday overnight at The Mead…. If you dare…get your tickets here https://bit.ly/3z1VSKw

10/19/2024

Bring the kids to the Children's Transportation Museum! It's playtime at its best. Interactive and educational! Open today (Saturday) from noon to 4pm.

10/18/2024

HALLWAY OF LOST HISTORY
Awwww Just look at these faces! Can you identify any of them? If so, post info in comment below.

10/17/2024

Stay overnight at Mead Museum…if you dare.
Www.meadbuilding.org/upcomingevents
Oct 26/27
Cemetery tour, Paranormal Variant team will be with us!, tour of off-limits spaces in the Mead Building, snacks and breakfast included! Reserve your space now.

10/16/2024

Watch Thursday night October 17th at 8 pm CST on SDPB TV, Facebook, YouTube and https://www.SDPB.org.
Yankton Meridian Bridge Centennial

10/16/2024

Hurry, time's running out to get your tickets in time for THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY! Hear the haunting stories of 5 historic buildings in Yankton, SD at the Haunted History Tours! 2 nights: October 18 & 19 6pm-8:30pm. A map (emailed to you after purchasing your ticket) will guide you between five historic Yankton sites where a narrator will present the building history & its haunting stories. Non-member tickets are $25 & Member tickets cost $15 (two discounted tickets limit). Buy your ticket online at https://bit.ly/4cMwXsh

10/15/2024

This week’s is a miniature book from the Little Leather Library Corporation. The Little Leather Library began around 1915. These miniature books were sold through five-and-dime chain stores before being made available through mail orders. These “relatively inexpensive” volumes were sold in sets of 30 for $2.98. The series continued until 1923. Rudyard Kipling’s Vampire and Other Poems was first published in 1899. Kipling’s poem “Vampire” was inspired by the painting by Philip Burne-Jones, first exhibited at the new gallery in London in 1897.
P.S. Buy your Haunted History Tour tickets now! https://bit.ly/4cMwXsh

10/14/2024

Haunted Overnight Oct 26/27. Tour spaces normally off-limits to the general public - plus a night time cemetery walk. https://bit.ly/3z1VSKw

10/14/2024

The Museum is OPEN today from noon to 4pm.
We honor the Indigenous People of this land and encourage you to stop by to see the NEW Journeying Forward exhibit banners. Between January 2022 and July 2024, the Mead Museum Exhibit Design Team had the honor of working with members of the Oceti Sakowin (formerly known as the Sioux) & Ihanktonwan (Yankton) Nations to bring their history into our Journeying Forward Exhibit. We appreciate the time of the following Community Exhibit Committee Members who made this collaborating a success: Faith Spotted Eagle (Ihanktonwan), Colten Archambeau (Ihanktonwan), Marquel Holiday (Ihanktonwan), Mary Bordeaux (Oglala), Clementine Bordeaux (Oglala), Jessica Fremland (Sisseton), John Little (Standing Rock), and the Mead Exhibit Design Team: Carol Ryan, Jane Bobzin, StanHoffart, and Crystal Mensch.

10/13/2024

Yankton County Historical Society Board of Directors out in the community!
Current Board:
Doug Fickbohm, President
Ruth-Ann Dannenbring V. President
Kathy Harens, Treasurer
Kathleen Flow, Secretary
Sandra Heatherly
Lori Ibarolle
Roger Meyer
Dr. Mary Milroy
Jesse Sealey
Craig Sommer
Linda Stephenson
Dan Klimisch, County Rep
Brian Hunhoff, City Rep

Address

82 Mickelson Drive
Yankton, SD
57078

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 4pm
Tuesday	12pm - 4pm
Wednesday	12pm - 8pm
Thursday	12pm - 4pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+16056653898

Website

http://www.MeadBuilding.org/

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Tuesday Nov 19 Legos @ The Mead Museum! The Lego creations will be on display during The Hall of Trees! https://bit.ly/2024HallofTrees Yankton Community Library #Christmas #meadmuseumhalloftrees #legos #yanktoncommunitylibrary

#nationalcatday

Oct 26/27 Buy your tickets now bit.ly/3z1VSKx or at www.meadbuilding.org/upcomingevents

Oct 26/27. Buy your tickets now bit.ly/3z1VSKx #hauntedovernight

Haunted History Tours Oct 18-19 Buy your ticket online at https://bit.ly/4cMwXsh Crystal was at Classic Hits 106.3 FM KVHT on Wednesday talking about upcoming events.

A brief excerpt of Director Crystal talking to KVHT about this Friday’s Feed Your Mind program at noon. “Strengthening our democracy: remembering history by shining a spotlight on the Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota” by author Arley Fadness

#gratefulwednesday Visit the galleries on the 3rd floor to learn about the incredible history of Yankton College. Museum Open Monday-Saturdays noon to 4pm.