Upcoming Events
October Poverty Escape Room
The Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
October Poverty 101
Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
Free Community Weekend
Join us for a weekend of FREE admission to all areas of the museum as well as a special exhibition opening reception.
Love the Outdoors Series: The Greatest Good
Learn about the history of the U.S. Forest Service and how it beame instramental in the larger conversation surrounding the importance of public lands.
Turtle Soup | Kelly Kirk - A Community of Extraordinary Women
Discover the remarkable women and organizations that helped shape South Dakota communities through the fight for woman suffrage and beyond. Historian Kelly Kirk shares the inspiring stories of the leaders whose impact continues to be felt today.
Turtle Soup | Deborah Cuyle - Where History Meets Mystery
Award-winning author Deborah Cuyle explores the ghosts, legends, murders, and mysteries that have shaped South Dakota's history. Discover the fascinating stories—and the historical research behind them—that continue to captivate generations.
Turtle Soup | Keith BraveHeart - The Dream Catchers Artists Guild
Peak inside the collaborative league of Indigenous artists whose goal was to build exposure and appreciation around Lakota Art.
Turtle Soup | Bruce Roseland - Poet Laureate of South Dakota
South Dakota Poet Laureate Bruce Roseland shares the inspiration behind Our South Dakota: An Anthology of Verse, celebrating the voices, landscapes, and stories that make our state unique.
Turtle Soup | Walter Stein - Bone Beds of the Hell Creek
Walter Stein will review the different types of bone beds, discuss their methods of formation, distribution and significance. We will review some of the largest bone bed deposits found in the Hell Creek Formation and talk about a specific, multi-taxic bone bed we call the Tooth Draw Quarry.
December Cliff Effect Escape Room
Cliff Effect Escape Room – An Eye-Opening Experience
Will a raise move your family forward—or push you further behind?
December Poverty 101
Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
Turtle Soup | Kayleigh Johnson - South Dakota State Historical Society Archaeological Research
Join archaeologist Kayleigh Johnson as she uncovers the story of a prehistoric quartzite quarry near Fairburn and reveals how archaeology and geology work together to unlock South Dakota's past. Rock puns are inevitable!
Turtle Soup | Rylan Sprague - Ethnobotany in the Black Hills
Learn about the diverse plant communities of the Black Hills, including culturally significant species used for food and medicine.
Turtle Soup | Pat Roseland - Rapid City’s Unknown Sculptor: Emmet Sullivan
Learn about Emmet Sullivan, the artist and sculptor who created Rapid City’s iconic Dinosaur Park.
Black Hills Film Festival
The Black Hills Film Festival returns to Rapid City for its 17th year, bringing together filmmakers, storytellers, and audiences for a weekend celebrating independent cinema in the heart of the Black Hills
Monumental Memories - Crazy Horse Memorial
Join the Journey Museum for a special presentation with Whitney Rencountre II, CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, and learn how the Foundation supports education, preserves Native cultures, and creates opportunities for future generations.
Monumental Memories - Establishing Black Hills Towns
Join the Journey Museum for a special presentation by historian David A. Wolff exploring the founding of Black Hills communities during the gold rush era.
STEAM Saturdays: Moving Monument
Come join us at the Journey Museum for a fun-filled day of STEAM! Keep the excitement going with the Monumental Memories Tour, featuring an engaging engineering STEAM challenge.
South Dakota: Yesterday & Today - Book Launch with Paul Horsted
Hear from Paul Horsted about his newest book, South Dakota: Yesterday & Today in this free presentation with book signing to follow.
Love the Outdoors Series: Freehub PRESENTS MTB Film Festival
Join the Black Hills Bike Hub on Saturday, August 29th for the Mountain Bike Film Festival.
STEAM Saturdays: Move Tools Up the Mountain
Come have a wonderful day of STEAM at the Journey Museum! Join us for the Monumental Memories Tour, featuring an exciting engineering challenge sure to spark your creativity.
A Biography of a Mountain - Book Talk
Join the Journey Museum for a special presentation with author Matt Davis as he explores the making and meaning of Mount Rushmore through the lens of history, memory, and public monuments.
August Poverty 101
Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
August Cliff Effect Escape Room
Cliff Effect Escape Room – An Eye-Opening Experience
Will a raise move your family forward—or push you further behind?
Chamber Music Festival 2026 - I Create, Therefore I Am?
Join us to welcome back the Chamber Music Festival for its 19th Season.
Monumental Memories - Battle of Greasy Grass
Join author and historian Donovin Sprague as he commemorates the Battle of Greasy Grass and its lasting impacts on Lakota history.
Love the Outdoors Series: From Rails to Trails
Join South Dakota Public Broadcasting for the next installment of the Love the Outdoors Series.
STEAM Saturdays: Making of a Monument
Join us at the Journey Museum for an exciting day of Family STEAM! Continue the Monumental Memories Tour with an art STEAM challenge.
Chamber Music Festival 2026 - A Moose Walks into a Bar…
Join us to welcome back the Chamber Music Festival for its 19th Season.
Chamber Music Festival 2026 - Bright Lights, Hollywood Nights
Join us to welcome back the Chamber Music Festival for its 19th Season.
STEAM Saturdays: Monumental Chemical Reactions
Join the Journey Museum and Dakota STEAM for a Saturday morning science experiment and bring your monument to life with colorful fizzing fun!
Surviving The '72 Flood - Film Screening
Join us to conclude a weekend of remembrance at Greenway Days with a screening of this special SDPB film.
Memories of George Washington - Book Talk
Join author Gary L. Gregg II as he highlights the crucial moments of Washington’s career in memory of the Founding Father.
Journey Museum Summer Festival 2026
Join us for our 2nd annual Summer Festival to celebrate the newly adopted Mission and Vision for The Journey Museum!
Love the Outdoors Series - An Evening With Teddy Roosevelt
Join us for an Evening with Teddy Roosevelt in our second installment of the Love the Outdoors Series.
June Poverty 101
Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
June Poverty Escape Room
The Poverty 101 Session explores the dynamics and myths of poverty for attendees from all sectors and fosters a shared understanding of poverty.
For The Birds - Live Music, Art, and Poetry
Join us for a night of music, poetry, and art as we celebrate conservation and climate change awareness through the lens of birding and ornithology.
Youth Visions & Voices of the Outdoors
Join us for the inaugural installment of this exciting new program.
Love the Outdoors Series is bought to you by The Beautiful Black Hills Initiative at the Black Hills Area Community Foundation.
STEAM Saturdays - Invent & Prototype – Spring Makers Lab: Design Thinking, Iteration & Creative Problem Solving
Celebrate invention and imagination in this open-ended prototyping session!
Morning Session: 10:30 AM
Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM
Turtle Soup | Paul L. Hedren - Sitting Bull’s War
In this deeply moving account, viewers are immersed in the struggles of the Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes in the 1870s to retain a lifeway on the buffalo prairie.
International Fly Fishing Film Festival
Join us for a night of unforgettable, adventure-driven films rooted in the soul of fly fishing.
STEAM Saturdays - Paper Engineering & Motion Lab: Balance, Movement & Creative Mechanics
Participants test center of gravity, structural strength, and pattern repetition!
Morning Session: 10:30 AM
Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM
Turtle Soup | Gina Gibson - Below the Surface: Art Inspired by Deep Science
Gina will discuss the many adventures that accompany her life as an artist, from her time at the deepest underground lab in the United States to Zürich, Switzerland.