FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff Blanchard
March 1, 2008
(701) 825-6840

SEVENTH ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT
FEATURED AT PEMBINA STATE MUSEUM MARCH 15

PEMBINA – The Pembina State Museum will host its seventh annual Easter Egg hunt, featuring a variety of family activities, on Saturday, March 15 from 2 to 4 p.m.  The museum serves as a regional museum of the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND).

All events are free.  Donations will be accepted.  Visitors and children will be able to participate in several fun games and crafts beginning at 2 p.m. 

Registration for the Easter Egg hunt will be from 2 to 3 p.m., and the egg hunt will begin at 3 p.m.  Registration is required for the egg hunt.  Children must be accompanied by an adult.  The egg hunt is for children ages 3 to 11.  There will be two separate designated areas for the hunt, with one area for the younger children and one area for the older children. 

Children will also be able to have their picture taken with the Easter Bunny, so parents should bring their cameras.  During the hunt that begins at 3 p.m., children will search for brightly colored plastic eggs and will be able to win prizes.

Managed by the SHSND, the 12,000-square-foot Pembina State Museum houses two museum galleries.  The permanent exhibit gallery features 100 million years of regional history from the Cretaceous Period to contemporary times.  The second gallery houses temporary and traveling exhibits highlighting regional and state history.

Visitors will also see a new exhibit that opened in January, Emigrants from the Empire: North Dakota’s Germans.  This exhibit investigates what it means to be German in North Dakota before and after both world wars.  Artifacts, photographs, and documents tell the story of who they are, how and why they emigrated, and how their culture and traditions still thrive in North Dakota.

Also available for viewing is the exhibit, Looking Back: Pembina’s Flood Battles, which examines the struggles the city’s residents have faced with flooding during the past 150 years, including battles both won and lost.  Pembina’s location at the confluence of the Red and Pembina Rivers was of strategic importance to early fur traders, but it has had its disadvantages as well, as the exhibit illustrates.  It will be at the museum through Spring 2009.

The Pembina State Museum is located off Exit 215 on I-29 at Pembina, North Dakota.  Admission is free.  There is no charge for children ages 12 and under to visit the observation tower.  The tower charge for youth ages 13 to 18 is 50 cents, and $2 for adults.  It is open year-round, closed only on New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  For more information about the museum, call the Pembina State Museum at (701) 825-6840 or visit the State Historical Society of North Dakota’s web site at www.nd.gov/hist.

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