Mount Rushmore cost 900,000 to build and you can see it in the Black Hills. It is a carving of four famous presidents, they are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson. The rock they carved into is granite. They were going to carve the bodies, but when Borglum died they stopped carving.
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There are many different Museums in South Dakota. The Sioux Indian Museum is in Rapid City and shows traditional and contemporary Native art and historic artifacts. In Vermillion there is a National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota. Finally, there is a Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Sioux Falls.
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