Featured event
Echoes of History: The Japanese American Imprisonment Resounds Today
Sat., May 21, 2022, 11:00 am - Noon
This free presentation expands on the history told in the “Righting a Wrong” exhibit.
Featured offerings
Research your family history
Research your family's history online with our digital resources.
Shop Art Speaks
Shop for books and gifts related to the Art Speaks exhibit at the Minnesota History Center.
Classroom-ready resources
Online and low-tech educational resources to support Minnesota's teachers and students.
Speak up for history
Contact your legislators to let them know why history is important to you and why historic sites should be preserved for future generations.
History is Now
We are living in a historic moment. Together, Minnesotans and MNHS are capturing and sharing history in real time. Join us in creating conversations that lead to real connection, deeper reflection, new questions, and purposeful action.
Field trips
Connect your students with history on a field trip to a MNHS historic site or museum. Scholarships and subsidies are available to offset transportation and admission costs.
Harry Blackmun
From MNopedia: The third Minnesotan to serve on the US Supreme Court wrote the decision in Roe v. Wade (1973).
Whiteness in Plain View
From MNHS Press, the book Whiteness in Plain View delves into how Minnesota’s legacy of racial exclusion has been interwoven into the state’s contemporary politics, economy, and culture.
Fund the Patrick Coleman Chair
Help endow our curatorial position for the acquisition and preservation of books and printed materials, and honor Patrick Coleman's legacy.
MNHS Storytime: Josie Dances
In Josie Dances, an Ojibwe girl’s coming-of-age story, author Denise Lajimodiere highlights her own daughter’s experience at powwow.
Minnesota History magazine
Read "Righting a Wrong: Eighty Years Since the Order That Put Japanese Americans Behind Barbed Wire," the featured article in the new issue of Minnesota History magazine.