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Minnesota Jazz Legends

Sun., Apr 2, 2023, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Celebrate the heritage of a great music scene with this live-music event honoring some of Minnesota’s most notable jazz legends.

Featured offerings

Ukraine War and Resistance exhibit Now on View
Votes for Women online exhibit.
Weather Permitting exhibit at the Minnesota History Center.
Then Now Wow exhibit.
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Minnesota Mystery Flash Fiction Contest

Congratulations to the winner and finalists in our first-ever Minnesota Mystery Flash Fiction Contest!

Family History LibGuides.

Research your family history

Research your family's history online with our digital resources.

Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005)

From MNopedia: Eugene J. McCarthy is born in Watkins. He would serve in Congress for over two decades, as a representative from 1949 to 1959, and as a senator from 1959 to 1971.

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Shop for books and gifts relating to Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition.

Classroom-ready resources.

Classroom-ready resources

Online and low-tech educational resources to support Minnesota's teachers and students.

Wild Things

From MNHS Press: A cisgender woman and her trans spouse learn, change, and grow together, navigating the transition, the communities they found, and the hostility they faced.

From Fort Snelling to Tuskegee Airman

This series is about Dr. Harold H. Brown, a native of North Minneapolis who started his military career at Historic Fort Snelling and became a member of the elite Tuskegee Airmen who fought in WWII.

History is Now.

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.

Students on a field trip at the Minnesota History Center.

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.

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.

Collections Item of the Day: Woman parching rice

As Women's History Month draws to a close, we want to recognize that much history has been made and lived by women whose identity and stories were not recorded or preserved, especially those who were members of marginalized groups. Without context about who they are and what they have done, these “unidentified” figures in the MNHS collection often go unseen. We are sharing a few of these images today. What untold stories have their clues hidden in these pictures?