Research for Women's Rights Exhibit
To hire a qualified historian to research the history of women's rights in Olmsted County.
$5,846,000 in fiscal year 2020 and $7,004,000 in fiscal year 2021 are for statewide historic and cultural grants to local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Money must be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer the money using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. grants@mnhs.org
In terms of our measurable outcomes, we have had a mixed bag in achieving our targets. Our short-term impact of making the research available to the public has been achieved. The research is available to the public and we have tracked the usage. Although this usage is not as high as we thought it would be, we feel as though that is more related to the COVID-19 pandemic than anything else. The research was used to create an exhibit and marketing materials around the exhibit, so this outcome has also been achieved. The final outcome was an exhibit that will increase civic literacy. As we were creating the exhibit, we realized to best serve this outcome this piece should be a bit more interactive and was therefore designed as such. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic this aspect of the exhibit was determined to be at risk of spreading the pandemic and so we placed it on hold. Hopefully in the future we will be able to add this piece back into the exhibit. Overall, a majority of the outcomes were reached due to the quality of the research. The outcomes that were not reached were a result of the pandemic, and hopefully as we move forward staff will be able to come up with a method to digitally meet these outcomes.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org