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MonDak Heritage Center
120 3rd Ave SE
Sidney, MT 59270

We are open:
10am-4pm Tues-Fri
4pm-7pm Thurs
1pm-4pm Sat
We are closed Mondays and all federal holidays.

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(406) 433-3500 (phone)
(406) 433-3505 (fax)
mdhc@richland.org


Please feel free to contact us at any time!

Welcome to the MonDak Heritage Center

The MonDak Heritage Center is the MonDak region's premier museum and art gallery, with the largest available exhibit space of any such combined facility in the region. Our mission is to preserve the region's cultural heritage and support its artistic development through traditional museum exhibits and art shows as well as through special programming. Please feel free to browse our webpage to get a sense of what we have to offer. If you have any questions, you can contact us using the information on your left.

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New Executive Director at the MonDak Heritage Center

Benjamin L. Clark of Edmond, OK, has accepted the position of Executive Director at the MonDak Heritage Center, and will take up his duties June 1. Benjamin grew up in Nebraska and recieved a B.A. in history from York College and a M.A. in Museum Science from Texas Tech. While in graduate school, he worked as a curator/collections manager at a small new museum of flight and helped develope an education/docent program for the museum.

Since 2006, he has been a curator of education at the Oklahoma Historical Society where he helped make available educational programs serving about 80,000 people per year across the state of Oklahoma. This past year his efforts have included research and development of an exhibit on "Latinos in Oklahoma," which is running in Oklahoma City. Benjamin also performs historical first-person interpretations.

The MDHC is pleased to welcome Benjamin and his wife, Lana, the daughter of Tim and Debra Baisch of Sidney, to the staff at the MonDak. There will be a welcoming reception in early June at the MDHC.

What's Happening Now?

"The Works of Walter Reller"
Through September 4th

The MonDak Heritage Center in Sidney is pleased to announce a new exhibit by Walter Reller which will run through September 4th. Reller’s work was recently featured alongside the art of Karl Bodmer who painted and sketched around Ft. Union in the 1830s. Reller followed in Bodmer’s footsteps finding the original locations Bodmer sketched from, sketching and painting the same locations again, only over 160 years later. Reller’s major commissions include the cover of Nemont telephone directories in 2006, and murals at the Daniels Memorial Hospital in Scobey, MT.

Reller, a Montana artist originally from the Bozeman area, holds an art degree from Montana State University. While working in China for three years he studied traditional Chinese painting techniques. Now he resides in the northeast Montana town of Scobey. While Walter primarily works in the painted mediums of oil, watercolor and acrylic, he also produces ceramic works and block
prints. This fascinating exhibit will be enjoyed by history buffs and lovers of the fine arts alike.

This exhibition is made possible by the membership of the MonDak Heritage Center.

 

"Stockton: A Retrospective"
June 15th - Aug 7th

Bill Stockton, (1921-2002), was a prolific artist, metal and bronze sculptor, writer and wool clothing designer. His signiture medium, the colorful cattle marker, is symbolic of his iconoclastic nature. Stockton studied art in Paris under the GI Bill then returned to Montana to his sheep ranch with his French wife Elvia. Fiercely independent, Stockton created without concern for marketability or commercial acceptance. Stockton, dubbed "avant garde" artist of the rugged terrain of central Montana, evolved from abstract expressionist to stark minimalist in his 50 years of painting.