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ISM-Dickson Mounds
10956 North Dickson Mounds Rd
Lewistown, IL 61542
(309) 547-3721

Admission: FREE

Hours:
Tue - Sat:  9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Closed: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day

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ISM-Dickson Mounds, a branch of the Illinois State Museum and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the major on-site archaeological museums in the United States. It offers a unique opportunity to explore the world of the American Indian in an awe-inspiring journey through 12,000 years of human experience in the Illinois River Valley. 

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the entry to the discovery center, with a banner that reads "the discover center" with different colored handprints to mirror rock imagery by pre-contact Indigenous Peoples. Inside is a bookshelf, with children's books, kids tables for activities, posters with mammlas, birds, and mussels, and glass windows surrounding the space.

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An image of the east side of the Dickson Mounds Museum, which is tan, in a pyramid shape, with a dark brown line.  In front of the museum is a small red brick schoolhouse, with a white door and chimney.  Three trees with green leaves line the area between the two buildings.

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