All Projects

Operating Support

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

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install permanent exhibits at Golden Valley Historical Society.

To hire qualified professionals to edit an essay on the history of Carleton College in the 1960s.

To hire qualified professionals to repair and restore windows in the Universal Laboratories Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

This project will expand the Truth Telling Series that collected, preserved, and shared suppressed Dakota and Anishinaabe histories through community oral narratives. The project will document untold and silenced narratives from Black Minnesotans in urban and rural communities to develop new and easily accessible curriculum for grades Pre-K-6, in partnership with numerous BIPOC scholars, elders, and community partners. The project includes a collaborative story collection. The stories will be collected, documented, and written.

To hire a qualified professional to process the archival collections held by Golden Valley Historical Society.

To hire a qualified conservator to restore a significant object in the city's collections.

Flexible Support

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of Earl Bakken and technological innovation, in preparation for a future exhibit.

The legacy portion of this grant will go toward a magician/entertainer who will initially stroll the grounds interacting with fairgoers (mostly youth) demonstrating balloon animals and then having a sit-down magic show twice a day. We will be have fiber weaving/crafting demonstrations throughout the fair week. These demonstrations will be done by 2 people showing from start to finish how fibers (sheep, dog, etc.) are spun into yarns and then woven into other products. We will also be enlisting one of our locals in demonstrating the art of forging.

To provide better security for the organization's large outdoor historic collections.

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the 1923 St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, Gary, MN.

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Emerging Artist

1. To develop the aligned scope and sequence of the PreK-12 Dakota and Ojibwe language pathways, ensuring students are progressing towards language mastery. 2. To seek community input and foster strong support of Native language and culture programming at AIMS. 3. To develop a plan for AIMS which ensures that Dakota and Ojibwe language and culture are infused in all classrooms, and creates a sustainable heritage language program option.

To hire a qualified historian to complete a local historic designation for the 1907 Fire Station No. 24 in Minneapolis, the only known all-African American staffed fire station in City history.

School Residency

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the 1924 Lake Park Bandshell in Winona.

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Arts and Cultural Heritage