Legacy-funded programs at the Minnesota Humanities Center demonstrate our determination to collaboratively create humanities programs for the broader public by forging strong partnerships with local, state, and national cultural organizations. These programs show the broader community how the humanities can be used to address issues important to their everyday lives. Each activity, event, and program shares an Absent Narrative with participants, which help residents across the state engage in a more sophisticated understanding of their community.
Partner Organizations: Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, Department of Employment and Economic Development, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality.
The Minnesota Main Street Program is a comprehensive strategy that helps Minnesota communities preserve historic buildings, while providing training, tools and support for commercial revitalization. ACHF funding has enabled the re-launch of this program.
Partner Organization: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Through a partnership with the Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota Historical Society has digitized the full run of the DNR's Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine. All issues of the publication dating back to 1940—or 28,000 pages—are available to the public online.
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is a statewide, multi-institutional initiative to make the rich historical resources of the state’s public and academic libraries, archives, museums and historical societies available to the public via the web and to preserve the resources for future generations.
25 standard Minnesota history titles were added to enhance the collection at the Morris Public Library. Several titles were replacement copies for books that had worn out.
The DCL purchased 23 books from the Minnesota History Bookshelf to provide access to a more current and complete overview of Minnesota history for their patrons. Some of the books will serve as replacements for older more worn books. They were presented to the public on a featured display.
HCHS added 29 standard Minnesota history titles to broaden public accessibility to historical resources. The grant was noted in HCHS's newsletter and in four county newspaper press releases.
Midwest Viking Festival (MVF) presents Viking-era arts, cultural traditions, and folkways with demonstrations, hands-on activities, and performances, including weaving, wood-turning, metalwork, carving, fiber dyeing, pottery making, felting, rune writing, songs, and more.
Minnesota Public Radio is the state's largest cultural organization, providing 96 percent of the population with free access to some of the best broadcast cultural programming in the world. Minnesota Public Radio is using a grant from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to implement projects around the following four goals:
This funding is for arts, arts education, and arts access, and to preserve Minnesota's history and cultural heritage.
The Minnesota Children's Museum will develop a literacy focused exhibit to catalyze community engagement around early childhood learning and education.
Partner Organization: Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS)
This partnership project with AMPERS, a network of Independent Public Radio stations across Minnesota, has created a series of 130 radio mini-features, 90 seconds in length.
Each episode of MN90 educates listeners about Minnesota history and links an important aspect of our past to current news, events and daily life in an entertaining and informative way.
The Minnesota Historical Society is developing a mobile application that will allow students to investigate Minnesota history anywhere, any place and anytime, using their handheld mobile devices.
In addition, the Society is designing a mobile technology component for the History Center's "Then Now Wow" exhibit (the exhibit's working title was "Our Minnesota") that will enable students to immediately apply what they've learned in exhibits.
The Minnesota Historical Society partnered with the Metropolitan Airports Commission, the NWA History Centre and the Airport Foundation MSP to exhibit a collection of photographs that document the first 50 years of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
"Views Across Time," shows MSP's transition from auto speedway to major U.S. airport. The exhibit, located on Concourse C, is on display through September, 2011.
199 issues of the monthly periodicals, The Student and The Mankatonian, from Mankato state Normal School (1888-1913) were digitzed to preserve them and make them more readily available to researchers, geneologists and the MN public at large.
Digitized copies were placed in the University Archives Digital Collections at Minnesota State University, Mankato and at the MN Reflections site as part of the Minnesota Digital Library.
Many projects and programs funded by the ACHF required multimedia support to generate online content, to create online training and video resources and to document programs.
This funding helped deliver those services to ensure a seamless and positive experience for users accessing information and new digital content made possible by ACHF projects.
Partner Organization: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
The Minnesota Historical Society is partnering with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation to continue the Neighborhood Leadership Program, an initiative that develops leadership skills of community members to take effective action.
Through ACHF funding, the program agenda has been expanded to include sessions integrating historical resources, lessons and visits to the Minnesota History Center, providing participants with greater access and awareness of the Society's resources.
Partner Organizations: Northfield Historical Society, Carleton College, Northfield Public Library, Rice County Historical Society and St. Olaf College.
Partner Organizations: University of Minnesota, Minnesota Digital Library, Minitex.
The Ojibwe language, like many other indigenous languages, is endangered. Most current speakers are over the age of 65 and probably fewer than a thousand speakers of Ojibwe in the United States learned it as their first language.
In 2010, the Minnesota Historical Society researched the development of an Online Fur Trade Interactive Learning Experience as a supplement to the Northern Lights history textbook.
This web-based application, geared toward middle school students, will not only offer a glimpse of Minnesota's history, but also provides a lesson about the foundation of today's complex global economy.
The MMCDC retained the services of an historical consultant to complete National Register Nomination for the Park Rapids National Guard Armory. After diligent research, applied evaluation methodology and appropriate application of NR Criteria, it was determined that the Armory was ineligible for inclusion in the NR.
The Lakes Crisis and Resource Center of Becker County is requesting funding to make the arts more accessible to women and children who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Knute Nelson residents have limited access to quality art experiences and grant funding will provide artistic concerts and shows thus increasing their participation in and appreciation for the arts.
The YWCA will engage at risk youth and immigrant families in arts events and activities, including performances and artist workshops, to reduce barriers and increase understanding and involvement in the arts.
This new initiative aims to increase student achievement in and through the arts in nine west-central Minnesota schools. With the ultimate goal of positively impacting the learning of more than 1,500 students this year in the Lakes Country region, 40 teachers in the arts and in other content areas are engaged in professional development, curriculum development, and assessment literacy, leading to the development and implementation of arts-integrated lessons and units tied to the Minnesota Academic Standards.
The Arts Education in Minnesota Schools Research Project is surveying all public and private schools to collect baseline data on the status of arts education statewide to serve as a resource for making data-driven decisions. A national research and evaluation company, Quadrant Arts Education Research, is conducting the study, comprised of three elements.
Indigenous people have always used stories to preserve and teach culture to each succeeding generation. Through this project, the Minnesota Historical Society will collect, record and interpret stories specific to the Jeffers Petroglyphs site.
The stories from tribal elders will be recorded and transcribed in their native language as well as in English, culminating in written interpretations that will be made available to a wide audience of scholars, students and the general public.
"Art Comes Alive!" will be the theme of our proposed collaborative, intergenerational arts experience for the children in Delano Community Education’s Tiger Kids Club childcare program and the seniors who attend the Delano Senior Center. The project, whic
The Howard Lake-Waverly- Winsted Community Theatre will bring "Annie Get Your Gun" by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields and Irving Berlin to the stage. There will be three (3) performances July 15-17, 2011 at the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School audit
This will be an after school mixed age and ability Art Club. Under the guidance of two local artists we will research a demolished past Public Art project, namely the "Grain Elevator Mural." We will then design a Public Art mural for the Community Educati
Buffalo Community Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at the Performing Arts Center of Buffalo High School. Following the travel theme of earlier 2010-11 concerts ("To Transylvania and Beyond," "Destination: North Pole
"To Transylvania and Beyond," an Orchestral Concert for all ages, was presented on October 30, 2010 at the Buffalo High School Performing Arts Center. Conductor Foster Beyers provided insight into the music in a pre-concert "Conductor Chat" at 6:30. The M
Kiss Me Kate will be produced and performed at the Buffalo High School Performing Arts Center in July 2011 using all-amateur, local talent onstage, behind the scenes, organizationally, and in the orchestra pit.
Buffalo Community Theater will produce the farce "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn in October 2011 at the Discovery School Auditorium in Buffalo, Minnesota with actors, technicians and artists from Buffalo and the surrounding communities.
Buffalo Community Theater will produce the classic play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde February 11-19, 2011 at the Discovery School Auditorium in Buffalo, Minnesota with actors, technicians and artists from the Buffalo and the surroundin
