Featured event
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
Minnesota Mystery Flash Fiction Contest
Congratulations to the winner and finalists in our first-ever Minnesota Mystery Flash Fiction Contest!
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.
Shop
Shop for books and gifts relating to Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition.
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
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.
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.