Interpretive Maps Illustrating History of Landscape Change in Minnesota
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Bell Museum of Natural History)
Recipient Type
Public College/University
Status
In Progress
Start Date
January 2013
End Date
January 2014
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Statewide
Project Overview
Digital maps were created depicting landscape change in Minnesota from the 1850s to today as well as maps that show predicted change in forest tree composition in northern Minnesota due to climate change. A prototype app was developed for a touchscreen computer that allows the museum visitor to explore this new content in an interactive environment as a new interpretive feature of the Bell Museum's historic Francis Lee Jaques moose habitat diorama.
The Bell Museum is in the process of developing a comprehensive plan for the interpretation of the habitat dioramas that includes a multi-sensory interactive experience in-situ at the diorama and museum-wide through an interactive digital tour. The creation of base maps and overlay data sets are important building blocks for use in multiple interpretive platforms (e.g. hand-held mobile device, interactive video screens, and interpretive flat art). By producing maps in digital format, the products of this grant are available and flexible in format for the long-term needs of the museum’s public programs.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Minnesota Historical Society Governing Board:
William R. Stoeri, President
Missy S. Thompson, Vice President
Ruth Huss, Vice President
D. Stephen Elliott, Secretary
Dean M. Nelson, Treasurer
Suzanne Blue
Brenda J. Child
Robert Bruininks
Judith S. Corson
D. Stephen Elliott
Phyllis Rawls Goff
William D. Green
David R. Hakensen
Ruth S. Huss
Martha Kaemmer
Dennis L. Lamkin
David M. Larson
Charles Mahar
Dean M. Nelson
Elizabeth M. Nordlie
Dennis Nguyen
Peter R. Reis
Hussein Samatar
Simon Stevens
Susan Kenny Stevens
William R. Stoeri
Karen Wilson Thissen
Missy Staples Thompson
Eleanor Winston
Ex-Officio:
Mark Dayton, Governor
Yvonne Prattner Solon Lieutenant Governor
Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State
Lori Swanson, Attorney General
Rebecca Otto, State Auditor
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Historic Resources Advisory Committee
Mark Peterson, Winona (Chair)
- Executive Director, Winona County Historical Society
- Governor's appointee to Minnesota Sesquicentennial and Minnesota Humanities Commissions
- Qualified in history, historic preservation and history museum administration
Leanne Brown, Eden Prairie
- Director of Development, Carver County Library/Library Foundation
- Formerly, Executive Director, Carver County Historical Society
- Qualified in history, project management and museum studies
Jack Byers, Minneapolis
- Manager, Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department (CPED)
- Manages CPED's Preservation and Design Section
- Qualified in historic preservation, architecture, urban geography and planning
Tamara Edevold, Bagley
- Executive Director, Clearwater County Historical Society
- Active in Minnesota's Historic Northwest, regional historical organization
- Qualified in history, archaeology, anthropology and history museum administration
Ram Gada, Eden Prairie
- Engineer
- Active in the documentation of Minnesota's East Indian community
- State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), former member
- Qualified in engineering, energy consulting and grants administration
William Latady, Tower
- Bois Forte Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
- Curator, Bois Forte Heritage Museum
- Qualified in archaeology, anthropology, historic preservation and history museum administration
Benjamin Vander Kooi, Luverne
- Attorney practicing as Vander Kooi Law Offices, P.A., in Luverne, MN
- Active in Vote Yes! Campaign
- Past chair, MN State Arts Board
- Advisor, National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Qualified in historic preservation, nonprofit and grants administration
Brenda Child, Minneapolis
- Chair, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
- Enrolled member, Red Lake Nation
- Qualified in history, American Studies and American Indian Studies
Nicole Foss, Bemidji
- Executive Director, Beltrami County Historical Society, Bemidji, MN
- Qualified in anthropology, historical archaeology, library and museum fields
Kris Kiesling, Roseville
- Director of Archives and Special Collections at University of MN Libraries
- State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) member
- Qualified in library and archives, digital services and history
Jan Louwagie, Marshall
- Coordinator, Southwest Minnesota Regional Research Center, Southwest Minnesota State University
- Founding member of Society for the Study of Local and Regional History
- Former member of State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
- Qualified in history and archival administration
Ann Meline, Saint Cloud
- Deputy Director, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud
- Formerly Assistant Director/Public Programs managing Exhibits, Collections and Education Departments
- Former grant reviewer for Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Qualified in history, nonprofit and museum administration
Peter Reis, White Bear Lake
- President, White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
- Chair, Minnesota Historical Society's Grants Review Committee
- Qualified in history and nonprofit and grants administration
William Stoeri, Minneapolis
- Ex-officio member (president of the MHS Board)
Missy Staples Thompson, Saint Paul
- Ex-officio member (treasurer of the MHS Board)
Project Details: 2013 Fiscal Year
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota for 2011 Chapter 6, Article 4, Subdivision 5, Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants.
Appropriation Language
Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants. $5,250,000 the first year and $5,250,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations; or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Direct expenses
$7,000
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
Digital files for maps were created showing 1.) land cover of Minnesota in 1850 (based on data collected by F.J. Marschner, in the 1930s, from the Public Land Survey of the 1850s); 2.) land cover of Minnesota today (based on the National Land Cover Database 2006 Land Cover); and 3.) projections of forest tree composition change in the forests of northern Minnesota (based on data from the US Forest Service).
A touchscreen interactive was designed to prototype the use of maps in an interactive format for museum visitors.
The targets of the grant were achieved. Digital files of maps illustrating landscape change from the past and projected landscape change of the future are now available for use with touchscreen technology.
Recipient Board Members
Linda Cohen, David Larson, Clyde Allen, Richard Beeson, Laura Brod, Thomas Devine, John Frobenius, Venora Hung, Dean Johnson, David McMillan, Maureen Ramirez, Patricia Simmons
Project Manager
First Name
Barbara
Last Name
Coffin
Organization Name
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Bell Museum of Natural History)
Street Address
450 McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak Street Southeast
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55455
Phone
612-624-4986
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