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 [...]

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 [...]