South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center

  Excellent exhibits with many artifacts cover South Dakota’s history from Native Americans to current times. The rotating exhibit gallery has an interesting exhibit about the construction in the 1960s of 150 underground nuclear missile silos in South Dakota. All but one, now the Minuteman Missile NHS, were deactivated and destroyed in the early 1990s. 150 seems like an excessive number but even after the destruction of these missiles, the US still has hundreds of active missile silos in other states.

  The main museum floor is accessible. An elevator accesses the Observation Gallery. The gallery has an exhibit on the women’s suffrage movement and a view of the Capitol and the grasses that cover the roof of the museum which is built into a bluff.

  RVs will fit in the parking lot if backed up over the grass or parked across the spaces. RVs may also be parked on the street. The walkway to museum entrance goes slightly uphill. Museum  44.37296, -100.33879