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Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame

999 Main St, Sturgis, SD

The rally's official museum is housed in Sturgis's former U.S. Post Office, which served the town's mail for more than 60 years before it preserved motorcycle history instead.

📅 2002–present🏛️ MuseumStill here
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The story

The museum first opened in June 2001 inside a renovated old church, restored with heavy volunteer help from the Jackpine Gypsies. In 2002 the City moved it into a more prominent building at Main Street and Junction Avenue — a structure that had been the town's post office for over 60 years. It collects and preserves motorcycling history, inducts riders into its Hall of Fame, and documents the rally that Pappy Hoel and the Jackpine Gypsies began a few blocks away in 1938.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The current building served as the town's post office for more than 60 years.
The museum started in 2001 in a converted old church at a different address.
It sits at Main & Junction — the same street where Hoel's 1936 shop stood.

Nearby history

Sturgis Commercial Block

1000 Main St · 49 m away
Nine cut-stone storefronts raised in 1888-1900 are the last standing witnesses to Sturgis's origins as a lawless boomtow

Hoel's Indian Motorcycle Shop

Junction Avenue · 178 m away
Nine riders raced for a $500 purse behind a small-town Indian Motorcycle shop in 1938 — and accidentally founded the lar

Broken Spoke Saloon

905 Lazelle St · 193 m away
Dave Iversen built the Broken Spoke on the site of an old lumberyard in 1988, deliberately just off Main Street with a c

The Knuckle Saloon & Brewing Co.

931 1st St · 240 m away
The Knuckle Saloon occupies an entire downtown block that its own history says once belonged to Col. Samuel D. Sturgis —

Hotel Sturgis (Benevolent Hall)

1144 Main St · 256 m away
Built in 1892 as a fraternal lodge hall, gutted by fire in 1906 and rebuilt the same year, this Main Street building has

One-Eyed Jack's Saloon

1304 Main St · 447 m away
Billed as the largest bar on Main Street, One-Eyed Jack's became such valuable rally real estate that it reportedly sold

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