PDF The Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest’s opportunity to house its entire collection at the University of Minnesota’s Anderson Library has freed up the organization to allow it to develop and focus on interpretation, outreach and education. Print PDF
While the Canton Historical Society is one of Minnesota’s newest historical organizations, the Mitson House Museum has been around since the 1970′s. Along with the Canton Depot, the Mitson House Museum is undergoing changes with the community’s renewed interest in their historical assets. Print PDF
After many years of planning and fundraising the Minnesota African American Museum opened its doors on June 1st, 2012 Minnesota now joins the 44 other states that have a museum dedicated to African American history. The Museum is housed in the 128-year-old historic Coe Mansion in Minneapolis’ Stevens Square Neighborhood. The museum’s first exhibit, devoted [...]
Beltrami County History Center is located in the restored 1912 Great Northern Depot. As the video shows, the museum maintains both long term exhibits and some shorter term rotating exhibits developed either in house by the Beltrami County Historical Society or statewide traveling exhibits. These frequently changing smaller exhibit allows visitors something new to see [...]
The Firefighter’s Hall and Museum, in Northeast Minneapolis, is dedicated to preserving vintage firefighting equipment as well as running a research library and a meeting hall for area firefighters. The museum which features fire trucks, fire engines and rescue equipment going back over 100 years also provides interactive exhibits as well as fire safety training for [...]
Saint Louis County Historical Society, much like the Minnesota Historical Society, is a full service history organization. In addition to its own exhibits on lumbering, mining, and many other locally significant stories, SLCHS operates Veteran’s Memorial Hall on behalf of the Saint Louis County Commissioners. Civil War veterans began Vets Hall, which like SLCHS also [...]
The Swift County History Museum is located on the west edge of Benson off of U.S. Highway 12. The museum features artifacts that depict the history of Swift County. Many of the artifacts are displayed in period room settings – dining room, living room, bedroom, general store, church, school, etc. The museum also features decade [...]
The Tri-River Pioneer Museum is the only building built to be a museum in Red Lake County. As the video shows very well, it is a fairly typical local history museum led by a very dedicated group of volunteers who have sacrificed much in order to make the history of the Plummer area much more [...]
Full day grant workshop at the Blue Earth County Historical Society with presenter Steve Paprocki, President, Access Philanthropy. This is a combined podcast with all four sessions for a combined length of 4 hours. Watch the presentation or download the audio. Print PDF
MHCG: Planting the Seeds of the Green Revolution
by Joe Hoover
on April 3, 2012
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· in Digitization, Information Technology, MHCG, Podcast
On site review of the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants funded project with Elisabeth Kaplan, Head, University Archives & Co-Director, University Digital Conservancy, University of Minnesota Libraries. June 17, 2011. The University of Minnesota Libraries received funding support to digitize the records of the principals of the Green Revolution, the worldwide collaborative effort to expand food crop [...]
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