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!

Register here: https://dacotahprairiemuseum.org/programs/museumschool/ 

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.