North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum

As a VENUE: Host your event…

Whether it’s an intimate seated dinner surrounded by the brilliance of our spectacular Northern Lights Atrium or an elegant corporate event in the Missouri River Event Center, the North Dakota Heritage Center offers imaginative new spaces to make every event truly unforgettable. We offer architecturally stunning and educationally rich spaces where people can dine, visit museum galleries, and socialize in the shadow of a towering mastodon. Six distinctive rental spaces are offered:

• Northern Lights Atrium: The stunning Northern Lights Atrium is considered to be one of the most unique places in Bismarck-Mandan.
  • Capacity: 90 guests
• Missouri River Event Center: The newly renovated Missouri River Event Center has an open floor plan that is perfect for banquets, receptions, and presentations.
  • Capacity: 200 guests
• Russell Reid Auditorium: Newly renovated with a backstage area, comfortable seating, and a large new screen, the auditorium is ideal for company meetings, lectures, film showings.
  • Capacity: 265 guests
• Great Plains Theatre: This new State Museum space is ideal for small gatherings of less than 65 people, film showings, and lectures.
  • Capacity: 65 guests
• Classroom Spaces: Our three classrooms with screens are the perfect versatile spaces for anything from a quick lunch to an all-day team-building space that’s already set up for learning.
  • Capacity: 25 guests per room
• Badlands Plaza: (Outdoors at the west entrance) The Badlands Plaza provides the perfect outdoor location for your wedding reception or corporate event. Showcasing a grand view of the State Capitol, this elegant location is one of a kind.

Support the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum …by simply booking your next special occasion here:

https://statemuseum.nd.gov/about/rentals

As a SHOP: Discover unique gifts…

Visit our Museum Store for a tremendous selection of North Dakota-related merchandise, including: * Handcrafted items * Books * Pride of Dakota products * Children’s items, and * more. Your purchase supports the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Foundation members receive a 15 percent discount on all purchases. Shopping is convenient and secure with the State Historical Society online Museum Store. The store stocks a tremendous selection of North Dakota-related products, books, videos, Lewis and Clark-related items, as well as a variety of handcrafted items made right here in our beautiful state. Our Mission: Our museum stores act as an educational extension of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, by providing visitors with quality merchandise that identifies, interprets, and promotes the heritage of North Dakota and its people. Merchandise is catalogued within these collections: Apparel/Textiles * Books * Food * Handcrafted * Jewelry * Kids * Media/CDs & DVDs * North Dakota * Notecards/Calendars, and * Souvenirs.

Support the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum …by simply purchasing your specialty merchandise here:

https://statemuseum.nd.gov/visit/museum/shop-dine

As an EATERY: Food for thought…

We are pleased to welcome El Coqui, a Bismarck-based authentic Puerto Rican bakery owned by Jossef Feiner, as the new managers. The menu includes coffee, sandwiches, cookies, salads, hot meals, and pizzas, plus freshly baked breads and pastries from the El Coqui downtown location.

Support the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum …by simply dining here:

https://statemuseum.nd.gov/visit/museum/shop-dine

Be a DONOR: Show that you care…

Donation:

State Historical Society Endowment funds are used exclusively for special projects carried out for the benefit of the public by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. If you would like to donate to a specific project or historic site, please specify when you make your donation. Learn about ways to make a donation to the State Historical Society and the State Historical Society of North Dakota Foundation.

• Planned Giving: Your gift to the Historical Society Foundation’s endowment provides an ongoing resource. Leave your legacy…make history. Private funding is essential for the State Historical Society of North Dakota to fulfill its mission: “to identify, preserve, interpret and promote the heritage of North Dakota and its people.”  The Historical Society Foundation is here to support the mission and activities of the Society. You, too, can provide ongoing support through a planned gift. In addition to significant tax benefits for you or your estate, a planned gift is an investment in the future.
• Charitable Gift Annuity: Gifts of money, stocks, bonds or other liquid assets. A large part of this income may be tax free, and you may also receive a charitable deduction for part of the gift.
• Charitable Remainder Trusts: Establish a trust that pays you an income stream for life and leaves the balance remaining when you pass away, to the State Historical Society of North Dakota. You may receive an immediate income tax deduction and could avoid capital gains taxes by donating appreciated assets.
• Charitable Lead Trusts: Establish a trust that pays the State Historical Society of North Dakota an income stream for your life and leaves the balance remaining when you die, to your family. Great for passing assets to your family with reduced estate and gift taxes while benefitting the Society at the same time. You may also receive an immediate income tax deduction.
• Retained Life Estate: Transfer real estate to the State Historical Society and retain the rights to live in and/or receive income from the property during your life. Upon death, the property will transfer completely to the Society. You may receive an immediate income tax deduction and this could also reduce your estate taxes.
• Cash and Gift Pledge: The advantage of this method is that the actual cost of the gift is less than the total dollar amount given to the State Historical Society of North Dakota. You may be able to deduct up to 50 percent of the gift off your adjusted gross income in the year you make the gift.
• Matching Gift: Your employer (or spouse’s employer) may match employee gifts to the State Historical Society.
• Stocks and Bonds: Use this way to donate highly appreciated stocks to benefit the school and to potentially provide capital gains tax savings.
• Real Estate: Giving private, commercial or agricultural property. If your property has decreased in value, you should consider selling it and contributing the proceeds to receive both capital loss and charitable gift deductions. We encourage you to contact us during the early stages of your planning so we can work together to decide the best use of this property.
• Your Will: Your will can include gifts in the form of stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, personal property or a percentage of your estate. Work with your attorney if you want the State Historical Society of North Dakota to be the recipient of a future gift.
• Life Insurance: You can make a substantial gift with modest premium payments, or use paid up policies that are no longer needed for your family members. You may also contribute other appreciated assets to the State Historical Society of North Dakota and with the related tax savings purchase a life insurance policy for the benefit of your family.
• Retirement Savings: Name the State Historical Society of North Dakota as a beneficiary of your retirement account. This could allow that portion of your account to pass income tax free to the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
• Donate to the Archives: The State Archives actively acquires, preserves, and makes accessible to researchers historical materials relating to Dakota Territory, North Dakota and the upper Great Plains. The State Archives wishes to acquire for permanent preservation: * newspapers * letters * diaries * organizational or business records * photographs * maps, and * audio/visual materials. Special emphases include: * agriculture * military * education * Native Americans * ethnic groups * religion * mining/drilling * politics, and * social organizations.
• Donate Objects to the Museum: The State Historical Society is actively collecting objects for its museum collections. To offer an item for donation to the museum, simply fill out the Potential Acquisition form. Your offer will be e-mailed directly to the museum staff. All items offered for donation to the museum will be reviewed by the Museum Collections Committee to determine if it fulfills the needs of the Society, does not duplicate existing items, and to ensure that the Society can adequately care for the item. The Society rarely purchases or borrows artifacts/objects. There is minimal funding for purchasing collections. The Society borrows objects only when needed for specific exhibits.

Volunteer: Volunteers are essential to the quality of service provided to the public by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. In addition to the thousands of visitors at the North Dakota Heritage Center, Pembina State Museum, and historic sites each year, the agency responds to many inquiries and provides assistance to researchers. At the North Dakota Heritage Center, public areas such as the information desk and museum store are staffed by volunteers, and docents provide museum teaching for visitors.

Support the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum …by simply giving and volunteering here:

https://www.history.nd.gov/donate.html