This museum is located in the former post office building. The building is one of the top few historic buildings of the region. The museum is the oldest art museum in the area. Its emphasis is regional art and artists. The program is full with dozens of exhibits back to back, mostly featuring new works of regional artists with retrospectives and other invitational show. Wonderful place in promoting art in the region.

If you are in the mood and looking for unique art from artists from around the region, check out the Rourke Gallery. There is a variety of pieces shown in an unique setting, complete with the quiet of time seeming to not be a factor. We need more quiet in our lives, and we need to spend more time just tuning it all down for even a brief part of each day. What a great way to decompress when you visit the Rourke Art Gallery.

The Rourke is a very small museum, but a perfect example of quality over quantity. The Rourke is excellent at curating collections made by local artists. The exhibit that I took in was that of Mackenzie Kouba, with her moody and dynamic oil-on-giant-canvas masterpieces. The work of other notable local artists like Trygve Olson is also featured in the periphery of the ground floor. On the second floor is the Rourke's small but varied permanent collection, featuring Warhol, Dali, Lichtenstein and Miro,as well as some beautiful cultural masks from cultures around the world. The atmosphere is calm and refined while avoiding pretentiousness. A friendly and quirky little gallery.

no leadership presence there any more, the shows do not change often enough and are poor quality, local artists mostly ignored.

The art exhibits were very good! Great talent! The building itself is old and interesting and makes a very nice space for a gallery. Not very expensive! A great value for the money!!