Museum · North Dakota
Hjemkomst Center
Hjemkomst Center is a museum in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 275 m. The nearest named place is Hopperstad Stave Church, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Highway 75- King of Trails Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off.
The story
ethnographic museum in Minnesota, United States
Dates from 1985.
Wikidata Q5873242, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Coordinates46.87796, -96.77830
- 0.5 mi off the Highway 75- King of Trails Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Viking Ship Park: 0.1 mi
- Wildflower Grove Park: 0.3 mi
- Riverfront Park: 0.3 mi
- Liberty Park: 0.4 mi
- Sticksgarden: 0.4 mi
Nature reserves: 33
- Cassel Woods: 4.5 mi
- Briarwood Prairie: 6.3 mi
- Downer Prairie WPA: 14.3 mi
- Bluestem Prairie SNA: 14.7 mi
- Spieker WPA: 15.6 mi
Historic sites: 10
- Veteran's Memorial Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Fargo Flood Control Project: 0.5 mi
- Rollo the Viking Statue: 0.7 mi
- Ivar Aasen Monument: 0.9 mi
- Hans Nielsen Hauge Monument: 0.9 mi
Museums: 9
- Hopperstad Stave Church: 0.0 mi
- Rourke Art Gallery: 0.4 mi
- Plains Art Museum: 0.6 mi
- Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center For Creativity: 0.7 mi
- Comstock House: 0.8 mi
Attractions: 6
- Tochi Products: 0.9 mi
- Tractor: 2.1 mi
- Minuteman II ICBM: 2.2 mi
- F-102A Delta Dagger: 2.5 mi
- F-101 Voodoo: 2.5 mi
Artworks: 5
- Sodbuster: 0.3 mi
- Angel of Hope: 0.6 mi
- Ole & Lena: 1.0 mi
- Sown: 1.1 mi
- Dragon Statue: 1.2 mi
Gardens: 2
- Heritage Garden and Amphitheater: 0.6 mi
- Prairie Wildflower and Wild Grasses Garden: 2.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Moorhead Travel Information Center and Rest Area: 2.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- 40th Avenue Open Shelter: 7.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Muskoda: 17.6 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:00 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:39 | 21:26 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:47 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 08:10 | 15:50 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 8 | 13 | 27 | 43 | 57 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 60 | 45 | 29 | 15 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moorhead, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/68668662
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