Josh Duhamel is from North Dakota. And he's proud of it! Check out this video he did for the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismark. (Side note: The guy playing the security guard-Scott Wild-is a good friend of our Sunday morning jock, Tim Lyon!)  And if you're wondering why you should visit, here are 10 good reasons from the North Dakota Tourism Website:

  1. Underwater World exhibit holds the world’s largest giant squid fossil that was discovered in North Dakota.
  2. The Archelon is a 12-foot giant sea turtle that would have lived in the seas when North Dakota was covered by water. It’s about the same size as a Volkswagen Bug.
  3. Six-foot by 50-foot cyclorama of Double Ditch Indian Village was hand painted by artist Robert Evans. His work can also be seen at the Smithsonian and the Estate at Mount Vernon.
  4. The glass atrium is a nod to early Native American architecture. Similar to an earthlodge, it is constructed with 20 poles. The special night lighting resembles the Northern Lights.
  5. Dakota, the 67 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil, is outside the Geologic Time Gallery. It is one of only six known naturally preserved hadrosaur mummies with skin mostly intact and visible scales. It was discovered near Marmarth, N.D., in 1999.
  6. The NASA spacesuit built by a team at the University of North Dakota.
  7. "The Horse" exhibit highlights the horse’s evolution and domestication, work and military uses, and Native American cultural significance, as well as the horse’s role in sports, art, and play.
  8. An outdoor amphitheater is the perfect spot to watch plays and outdoor movies or enjoy a picnic in the grass.
  9. Cannonball! The large round stones outside the museum are called cannonball concretions and are the namesake of the Cannonball River.
  10. All of this is absolutely FREE and open to the public!
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