Loving our art, we visited the Plains Art Museum on our visit to Fargo located in a renovated harvester warehouse. Apparently it is the largest art museum in North Dakota. In addition to its regular guest display collections it has a large permanent collection on display including one of our favourites, Native American Art. Worth a visit - and it's free!

Their website says they have over 4000 works in their permanent collection, so we were disappointed not to see much of that; if those were on display we missed that part of the building somehow. The young woman at the reception desk told us the first floor was closed that day. The upper floors had some temporary exhibits of contemporary art, one by a Native American artist whose work expressed a lot of anger about how indigenous people have been treated, and another with some very abstract art like a series of dyed cloths. We spent less than 30 minutes here and were glad parking and admission were free. Their website says they work in the community with art classes and other outreach but we are not locals so don’t have any experience with those aspects.

Lovely experience. Great mix of local artists, including Indigenous Peoples' art. Staff was very friendly and helpful.

This is a small but nice art museum that does not charge admission. They do have a gift shop so you can support them. Unfortunately one exhibit was moved out because the temperature could not be controlled as needed for the materials of the work, but we had enough to see while we were there. I would return.

Some galleries were closed for some reason, so only two were open and one was all one artist on loan for everything. Took us all of about 30 - 45 minutes and did not seem to have much of a permanent collection.