Museum School

Museum School

“The Art Of” is our 2025 theme for workshops to bring museum-quality but user-friendly skills and information to our patrons.

Over the course of 4 Saturdays, learn the art of a variety of topics. From digitizing your images to learning about heritage arts, Museum School is a great way to get started preserving and creating your history. Join us for Saturdays in March for a variety of topics for ages 16 and up!

The Art of Preserving Images – March 8th 1:30 – 3:00

Registration Fee $10 

Learn how to identify types of photographs, negatives and slides and how to best store each type. Take steps towards digitizing your images and learn a variety of ways to do so. Find out what kinds of equipment are used to digitize an image. Is editing your photo necessary? See some examples of photo restoration and find resources to restore an image yourself or
with a professional.

Bring with you a photograph, negative, or slide you would like to preserve. Please keep the size to under 8 x 10.

The Art of Preserving Digital Media – March 15th 1:30 – 3:00 PM

Registration Fee $10 

Hear from a digital records expert, all about what you need to preserve, store, and convert audio, video, VHS, reel-to-reel and cassette tapes. Learn what kinds of machines are used and what types of cables and cords go where. “How do I store these files?” “How should I back these files up?” These questions and more will be answered!

The Art of Heritage Arts – March 22nd 1:00 – 4:00 PM

Free & Open to the Public

A heritage arts faire featuring booths from area groups, watch and ask questions about quilting, carding, felting, knitting/crocheting, beading, weaving/looming, cross-stitch, and more!

Connect with members of our local community who keep the traditions of the heritage arts alive.

Are you a maker of a heritage art? Find out how you can volunteer your knowledge and get involved! Give us a call!

Free and open to the public!

The Art of Making – March 29th 1:30 – 3:30 PM

Registration Fee $20 

Why should the art camp kids have all the fun? Join us for some creative fun and learning for the grown-ups! For the last session of Museum School, we will be delving into the world of printmaking.

See some historical objects that were used to create prints in the past. Printmaking was a major breakthrough historically and helped spread information and images to the masses at a pace never before imagined!

Explore some hands-on methods of printmaking using household objects to create a monoprint of your own. Come away with a unique card made by you and the knowledge to keep creating on your own!

Finally, we’ll be talking about how prints were sometimes hand-colored to give them more life! Try your own hand at coloring a print using a watercolor method! We will provide the print for this purpose.

Wear clothing you won’t mind getting dirty!

Register for sessions below or in person at the Dacotah Prairie Museum.