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Museum History

The Lillian & Coleman Taube Museum of Art, formerly known as the Minot Art Gallery is a public non-profit membership driven organization. The Minot Art Association, which was the founding organization, opened the Minot Art Gallery in 1970 by a group of patrons with the intent of creating an art gallery. In 2006 the Minot Art Association formally changed their name to the Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art. The Minot Art Gallery was initially located in the Linha home on Hwy 83 North. It then moved to the Ward County Historical Society building located on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds east of Minot. In 1978 the Minot Art Gallery was relocated to another Ward County Historical Society building, the J.E. Harmon House, also located on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds. In 1997 the organization achieved their goal of securing a permanent location and the Minot Art Gallery moved to the historically renovated Union National Bank building located at 2 North Main.

The Lillian & Coleman Taube Museum of Art encourages affiliation with various community arts groups, such as the Minot Area Council of the Arts, the North Dakota Art Gallery Association, and the Mouse River Players, to strengthen the arts in our region. We provide opportunities for the community to learn about all forms of the visual arts through our varied exhibits. The Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art is open to the public 12 months of the year, five days a week.

  Downtown Landmark

Now listed on the national register of Historic Places, the new museum stands out in its downtown setting, anchoring the northeast corner of Main Street and Central Avenue. Built in 1925, the structure once housed the Union National Bank. In the early 1900s the corner was the site of the Jacobson Opera House, which thrived, as the region’s cultural and entertainment Mecca for nearly 20 years. 

When the bank ceased its operations at that location in 1964, the building was conveyed to the United Services Organization. Clayton and Colleen Johnson and Elliott and Joyce Obedin of Minot later purchased it. Mrs. Johnson, a member of the Minot Art Association, saw the building’s potential as an arts center, so the facility was given to the association, and its destiny as a place where the arts happen was reborn. 

Stanley Taube, a prime benefactor of the museum, is the son of Lillian and Coleman Taube, longtime civic leaders and arts supporters who were in the women’s clothing business in Minot for many years. Stan Taube’s generosity and that of others enabled the art association to complete the first phase of renovation and to re-open its doors as a museum and gallery in 1997.