Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation

Our Mission

Treasures of the Trail

Tourism Impact

Membership Information

Welcome to the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization which manages and maintains Fort Mandan and the North Dakota Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center.

The Collector, By Gary A. Anderson, Interpretive Specialist
2/4/2010
When I began working for the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center 10 years ago, I knew about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but to tell you the truth I really hadn’t paid a whole lot of attention to it. Other than my two or three days given to it during my high school days, it was just another part of my regular education. However, once I took the job as interpreter, I couldn’t get enough information concerning the expedition. So my collecting days began.

One Exhibit Leaves, Another to Come! By David Borlaug, President
1/7/2010
At this writing, we are hosting Sonja Schierle from the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, who is here to retrieve the Prince Maximilian artifacts that have been on loan to us this past year. In the 14 months that that this exhibit has been shown, along with the Karl Bodmer display, over 25,000 visitors from all 50 states and dozens of countries have come to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, right here in Washburn, to view them!

Closed for New Year's Day
12/28/2009
The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan willed be closed Friday, January 1st and will reopen at 9:00 am Saturday, January 2nd.

The North Dakota Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center
PO Box 607
Washburn, ND 58577-0607
Phone: (701) 462-8535
Fax: (701) 462-3316
Toll-free (877) 462-8535
Email: info@fortmandan.org