All Projects

To convert analog slides of collections images to digital, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.

To digitize a collection of video recordings of Monticello football games, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To digitize part of a large collection of photo negatives, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To digitize a collection of diaries and sketchbooks, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.

To digitize and preserve items representing the ecologic history of the Driftless Area in Minnesota, create a map from 1862 data, and conduct an interpretive program.

To digitize and preserve Dr. Calvin Fremling's Archive and develop an educational lecture series.

Increasingly, people are turning to digital resources for answers to questions or as a starting point for research. MNopedia is a new digital resource for the public from the Minnesota Historical Society.

Working with the Minnesota Newspaper Association, local historical societies and newspaper publishers, the Minnesota Historical Society launched an innovative project to expand the number of contemporary newspapers available in digital form.

In the pilot phase of the project, the Society developed a methodology for digitizing, preserving and indexing newspaper content. Those processes will be tested with six newspapers and optimized in 2011.

Through this funding, the Minnesota Historical Society is advancing the work of making collections information available online. The Society is photographing 3D objects in the collections and completing corresponding descriptions that will be published online, allowing web site visitors to access an increasing volume of historical information.

Partner Organizations: Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MNGeo), Minnesota Secretary of State, Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), Minnesota Association of County Surveyors (MACS), U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

This project will move from a development phase to an implementation phase during which the public will begin to gain access to a greater number of Minnesota newspapers from around the state on the internet. Society staff will refine and automate the newspaper management system it developed in the first phase of the project and continue to work out access agreements with publishers and also form new partnerships with many more publishers. Staff will continue the work of harvesting and archiving webonly news sources that was begun in the first phase of the project.

The Minnesota Historical Society will continue to increase access to its collections by making historical resources available online for the general public. This year, there will be a greater focus on posting collections items relating to the U.S.--Dakota War of 1862 and the Civil War as part of the Society's wider commemoration of both events.

To convert 44 VHS tapes to digital format allowing greater public access.

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

To digitize part of a large collection of photo negatives, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To digitize a collection of archival materials from the 1925 Norse-American Centennial, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.

To digitize the Olson Family Collection, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To digitize part of two collections of large-format prints and negatives, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.

To digitize part of a large collection of photo negatives, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To digitize a collection of archival videos of the theater's performances and other activities, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.