Statewide Traveling Exhibits: "Exhibits To Go"

Five traveling exhibits are making more than 45 stops in communities around the state in FY12 and FY13, giving more Minnesotans the chance to experience history in their own backyards. The exhibits feature freestanding displays, audiovisual and interactive components, and onsite and online educational programming. They are Minnesota on the Map, Minnesota Homefront, Electrifying Minnesota, Uncle Sam's New Deal and Minnesota Disasters. Two traveling exhibits were developed working with teens. "Minnesota Remembers: the 1960s," focused on the life, music, entertainment and issues of being a teenager during that decade. From June to August of 2012, the exhibit stopped at libraries in Willmar, St. Cloud and Fergus Falls, where local teens created their own exhibit based on interviews with local residents who were teens during the 60s. In fall 2012, ten American Indian high school students worked with the Society and the non-profit Photography at the Center to create a traveling photography exhibit. Students learned about portraiture, contemporary and historical representations of American Indians and photography while working with a local American Indian artist to create a contemporary self-portrait. The portrait exhibit will be displayed at the Minneapolis Photo Center in December 2012 and at the Minnesota History Center in January 2013.