Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
&
Fort Mandan
Washburn, North Dakota

Welcome to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center...
This 11,000-square-foot Interpretive Center, dedicated to everything Lewis & Clark, features exhibits that will both entertain and educate the visitor. I like to call it the "Lewis & Clark Experience", since it offers the opportunity to immerse yourself into the life and times of the great explorers.

Greeting visitors at the front entrance of the Interpretive Center, stand three 12-foot tall steel statues depicting Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Mandan Chief Sheheke. The statues signified the time Lewis & Clark spent at Fort Mandan.

The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center is sectioned into three main units: the Lewis & Clark Expedition wing, the Fort Clark wing, and the Bergquist Gallery which features the artwork of Karl Bodmer (considered the most reliable eyewitness account of the Upper Missouri Indian cultures).

Note: A tour of Fort Mandan is included in the admission price.

Highlights
• 12 foot tall steel statues depicting Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Mandan Chief Sheheke
• A herd of 4-foot-tall steel buffalo, numbering 25
• Giant Map created by William Clark
• Dugout Canoe carved from a 115 year old cottonwood tree
• Interactive Games
• Diorama of Fort Clark
• Bergquist Gallery (artwork of Karl Bodmer)
• Orientation Film
• Tour of Fort Mandan

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Welcome to Fort Mandan...
Fort Mandan, home to the Lewis and Clark Expedition during the winter months of 1804 - 1805, was named in honor of the Mandan-Hidatsa Indians that lived near by. Five months were spent at Fort Mandan, waiting out the winter. It is here that Lewis and Clark first met their famous female Indian guide...Sakakawea.

Fort Mandan, a full-sized, furnished replica built in 1972, is comprised of 7 rooms surrounded by walls that climb to 18 feet high on the outer edge. It is constructed entirely from cottonwood trees.

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