Performing Arts and Cultural Attractions

The entertainment capital of the region, the Fargo Moorhead area offers a wide variety of activities for both visitors and residents

Performing and Fine Arts

Fargo Entertainment Company Local theatre troupe performs theatre presentations and murder mysteries and offers humorous telegrams and clown rental

Fargo-Moorhead Ballet Brings professional dance prerformances and creative educational opportunities to the FM area.

Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre Presents live theatre from September until June; offers something for everyone, including comedies, musicals, family shows and off-site theatre productions.

Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company (NDSU Festival Concert Hall, Fargo) Provides quality opera performances, featuring local, regional and international artists; the only full-time organization providing opera for 38 years within a 250-mile radius

Fargo-Moorhead Symphony (NDSU Festival Concert Hall, Fargo) Presents a full season of symphonic and chamber orchestra works; established in 1931

Fargo Theatre (Downtown Fargo) An historic landmark built in 1926; a monument to the early days of vaudeville and silent movies; features the Might Wurlitzer Organ and renovated Art Modern interior

Festival Concert Hall (NDSU, Fargo) Features local, university and world-renowned performing artists; home to the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony

Gate City Bank Theater (FARGODOME) Year after year; theatre-goers are enthralled by world class entertainers in an intimate theatre setting for 3,500.

Gooseberry Park Players (Gooseberry Park, Moorhead) provides young people with an educational and recreational summer theatre experience every July; productions are geared to a family audience

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Jazz Arts Group This community-based professional repertory jazz orchestra offers concert presentations, guest artist clinics and educational programs; features the region's and world's renowned jazz artists

Lake Agassiz Girls Choir A community choral arts organization for girls in grades three through twelve in Fargo Moorhead and surrounding area.

Little Country Theatre (NDSU, Fargo) produces a variety of theatrical activities, from Broadway musicals to the finest in contemporary and original drama

Minnesota State University Moorhead Theatre Offers four main-stage productions during the academic year

Straw Hat Players (MSUM, Moorhead) One of the oldest and most popular summer theatres companies, having staged more than 200 productions; founded in 1963

Trollwood Performing Arts School (Trollwood Park, Moorhead) An outdoor youth theatre program; featuring various programs in performing and production arts; culminates each summer in a presentation of a Broadway musical
 

Cultural Attractions and Museums

Bergquist Pioneer Cabin (North Moorhead) Built in 1870, this is the oldest Moorhead house; still on its original site

Bonanzaville USA (West Fargo) A reconstructed pioneer village portrays life when bonanza farming was at its peak in the late 1800s; home to the Cass County Historical Society and Museum

Celebrity Walk of Fame (SW Fargo, F-M Convention & Visitors Bureau)
Providing a little bit of Hollywood in the Midwest since 1989 with hand- or footprints of more than 100 musicians, athletes, movie stars and dignitaries, including Neil Diamond, Bob Costas, Garth Brooks and The Eagles

The Children's Museum at Yunker Farm (North Fargo) A fun place where children and their families can play, learn, create and interact: offers hands-on exhibits; recognized as one of the country's top 25 children's museums

Clay County Historical Society Museum (Hjemkomst Center, Moorhead) Offers several galleries filled with changing exhibits; features a wide variety of local and historical topics

Comstock Historic House (Moorhead) Built in 1882, features Victorian architecture and furnishings

Concordia College Campanile (Moorhead) Created in celebration of Concordia college's centennial in 1991, the Plass (Norwegian for "place" or "mall") is dominated by a 100-foot tower with six bells that ring throughout the day, including before and after chapel, and on special occasions

Dinosaurs & More (West Fargo) Home of Discovery Museum, featuring fossils, dinosaur material, wood carvings, butterflies and insects; kids enjoy toys, books exhibits and all things science

Fargo Air Museum (North Fargo) We are blue skies on cloudy days. Our planes fly! vintage World War II one -of-a-kind aircraft- Japanese Zero, P51 Mustang, TBM Avenger, Corsair and more! Interactive children's exhibits, North Dakota WWII Flying Aces exhibit, Ag aviation, Fred Quam Research Library, movie theater and local EAA317 Restoration chapter. Space for children's birthday parties, corporate events, wedding receptions and more! Great stop for group and bus tours.

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Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County (Downtown Moorhead) The Historical and Cultural Society operates the museum and archive in the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead. The society was organized in 1932 to collect, preserve and make available knowledge of the history of Clay County, Minnesota. HCSCC preserves a collection of over 30,000 historic artifacts, including three historic properties in Clay County. HCSCC also manages and interprets the Hjemkomst Viking Ship replica and the Hopperstad Stave Church replica for the City of Moorhead.

Hjemkomst Center (Downtown Moorhead) Features the replica Viking Ship Hjemkomst and traveling exhibits; home to the Clay county Historical Society and Museum, Moorhead Senior Center; Stavkirke Norwegian Church replica and the Chamber of Commerce of Fargo Moorhead.

Log Cabin Folk Art Center (South Moorhead) The log cabin was built in 1859 along the Red River and served as a stagecoach stop on the Minnesota State Company's route. In 1878 Charles Whitcom bought the cabin and moved it to the 10th Street North in Moorhead. In 1933 former Parks Director Adolph Bowman and the Moorhead Garden Club moved the cabin to its current location. In 1999, local artists, Gloria Weisgram, Gary Paulsen and the City of Moorhead began to use it as a folk art center.

MSUM Planetarium (MSUM, Moorhead) Focuses on environmental science and offers a wide variety of programs.

MSUM Regional Science Center Buffalo River Site (Glyndon, MN) An outdoor, hands-on laboratory for physical, natural and social sciences

Plains Art Museum (Downtown Fargo) A strikingly unconventional museum of fine arts in downtown Fargo; actively serves the region through art exhibitions, art education experiences and special programs.

Roger Maris Museum (West Acres Shopping Center, Fargo) The museum displays items from every year and every aspect of Roger's athletic career, from high school to the pros; the displays will change semi-annually

Rourke Art Gallery & Museum (Downtown Moorhead) A leading cultural institution in our region providing private and public events, including temporary special art exhibitions of local, regional and national artists. A significant permanent art collection that is continually being added to is always on view either at the Museum or at the Gallery.

Underbrush Gallery Locally area artists are included in an array of fine art displays. Custom framing is also available. 701.235.2228

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