The Adams Museum & House has been named one of the top 10 best Western History Museums for 2008 by True West magazine. The Adams Museum & House was ranked at No. 8 in the May 2008 issue.

The magazine noted that the Adams Museum provides quality educational programs and exhibits on the history, natural history and art of the Black Hills. The museum hosts a monthly lecture series, musical concerts, dramatic and living history presentations and workshops. Recent exhibits focus on the findings from the Chinese archaeological excavations that recently took place in Deadwood; the City of Deadwood's Wild Bill Hickok collection; and the official naming of a new genus and species of a plesiosaur in an new display featuring the fossils of a marine reptile that swam the shallow seas of this region 95 million years ago.

The Adams Museum and the Historic Adams House are open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

For more information, contact 578-1714 or visit www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org.