All Projects

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

To convert printed materials into searchable pdfs, allowing for greater public access to historic resources.

To provide professional development for staff and volunteers at the national Oral History Association conference in Minneapolis, October 4-8, 2017.

To hire qualified professionals to edit a documentary script on the history of life on Norwegian Ridge in Houston County.

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the preservation of the Carnegie Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit design and development documents to enhance and broaden the George Daniels exhibit.

To hire qualified developers to begin planning a digital archive of Minnesota's music history.

To document in 32 oral history interviews the history of herbalists and herbalism in Minnesota.

To hire qualified consultants to evaluate a 1913 bank building in Polk County for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

To digitize a collection of oral history video recordings, allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To hire qualified professionals to replace the roof and do additional restoration on the City of Brainerd Water Tower, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified conservators and structural engineers to restore a significant wall mural in the museum's collections.

The goal for Project TALK (Technology-Assisted Language Keepers) is to increase technology-based resources and to create more opportunities for urban American Indian community members to learn their Native language(s).

To hire qualified professionals to publish a book on historic homes in Minnesota that have a connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

To hire qualified professionals to stabilize building elements on Central Presbyterian Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified professionals to do restoration and repairs on the George Stoppel Farmstead, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified professionals to complete exterior repairs on the Central Presbyterian Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To provide appropriate storage materials for rolled textiles in the museum's collections.

To renovation and restoration of the Litchfield Opera House

To digitize issues of the student newspaper, "The Reporter," allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of the Scandia Water Tower Barn.

To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of art in Minnesota.

To hire qualified professionals to restore building features on Charles Thompson Memorial Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.