• Mission

    Preserve, educate, and explore the heritage, cultures and environment of the Black Hills region to understand our past, enrich our present, and sustain our future.

  • Vision

    Inspire all audiences to learn and play in a vibrant and dynamic atmosphere; Create wonder and curiosity through exhibits and programs that lead to life-long learning; Reveal cultural, historical, and scientific connections to foster new knowledge, appreciation and understanding in our community and its visitors.

  • Equity & Inclusion

    The Journey Museum strives to be a place that is accessible and inclusive to every individual and community that we serve. We believe that museums are an essential service that can be a place of belonging, dialogue, and healing for everyone. By listening to a diversity of voices and giving equal agency to all, we hope to create an inclusive home where everyone feels welcome and connected. The Journey Museum recognizes that barriers to access exist and seeks to remove those barriers to provide increased accessibility to all individuals.

About Us

Built by the City of Rapid City and dedicated in 1997, The Journey Museum is a nonprofit institution governed by the Museum Alliance of Rapid City. The Journey Museum proudly houses collections in partnership with the South Dakota Archeological Research Center, as well as the Sioux Indian Museum. The Journey Museum recently merged with the Black Hills Historical Society to become one organization that accepts historical artifacts from across the Black Hills. The Journey Museum is also proud to house the Duhamel Collection, owned by the City of Rapid City.

In addition to maintaining and curating our collections, we hope to reconnect people to their past and inspire life-long learning by offering special programming, research, curated art displays, and easy-to-access digital archives. We believe knowledge and stories about our heritage can re-energize a community and be a stimulus for empathy and connection to place.

We are a community of people—our volunteers, staff, and community partners and affiliations, help us continue uncovering and documenting these invaluable stories and artifacts.

We hope you join us in our mission.

Our vibrant landscape and its people are the keepers of stories—many still untold. We hope to reveal so many more.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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