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Recipient
Oyate Nipi Kte
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,815
To supplement previous work on preserving the Dakota language, which transmits history and cultural heritage, by defining 451 additional verbs.
Anoka
Hennepin
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Granite Falls Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,407

To prepare exhibits and events to mark the centennials of the 1919 National Prohibition Act and the 1922 Capper-Volstead Act.

Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,026
To hire qualified project staff to research the availability of Brown County depredation claims from 1863.
Brown
Recipient
Canton Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fillmore
Recipient
Nicollet County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,357
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Nicollet
Blue Earth
Brown
Le Sueur
Sibley
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,306
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Clay
Recipient
City of Moorhead
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,440
To provide professional development for one staff member at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Clay
Recipient
Yellow Medicine County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,474
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To hire qualified consultants to update and install an exhibit for the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Hjemkomst Voyage.

Clay
Recipient
Wanda Gag House Association
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,675

To provide Wanda Gag House Association with professional continuing education through a national museum training program.

Statewide
Brown
Recipient
Project Get Outdoors, Inc.
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

CMSM opened its new permanent site with increased capacity to serve as an informal learning center that playfully engages children, families, and school groups in interactive experiences with the art and cultural heritage of southern Minnesota. With its current appropriation, CMSM is poised to strengthen its core as an institution that promotes arts and cultural heritage learning through continued

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,590

CMSM will build upon the work that began with its 2015-16 appropriation by (1) Remediation and further development of exhibit areas that promote Arts & Cultural Heritage (ACH) learning (2) Expanding ACH learning opportunities for new audiences at off-site locations; (3) Engaging an outside Evaluation Consultant to help plan/implement strategies that meaningfully assess ACH learning outcomes and impacts; (4) Boosting the Museum’s capacity to serve more school/early learning groups.

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Barnesville
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Clay
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,879
Brown
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Brown
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,989
Brown
Recipient
City of Springfield (Springfield Public Library)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,879
Brown
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,304

To add 102 rolls of microfilmed Springfield, MN newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Brown
Recipient
City of Granite Falls (Public Library)
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,125
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
East Central Regional Library
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,840
Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
East Central Regional Library
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500

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

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,618

126 rolls of microfilmed church records, WPA files, and newspapers were added to the HCSCC collections to broaden public accessibility to primary records.

Clay
Recipient
New Ulm Public Library
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,966

The New Ulm Public Library expanded its microfilm collection to add 258 rolls of microfilmed local newspapers covering most of the 19th and 20th centuries, all of which were absent in their previous collection. This greatly increases free and full access to both researchers and the general public to these primary records.

Brown
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,277
To add 40 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Clay
Recipient
Chisago County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Chisago
Recipient
City of Dawson
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385

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

Big Stone
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,177

To add Minnesota Sanborn and Fire Underwriters' Inspection Bureau maps to Clay County Historical Society's holdings to make this information more accessible to the public.

Clay
Recipient
Jackson County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Jackson
Cottonwood
Martin
Nobles
Recipient
City of Canby
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Brown County Historical Society's microfilm reader/printer has long been obsolete and often requires repair becoming difficult and more costly.
Brown
Recipient
Fillmore County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,940

To broaden public access through an ADA-compliant wheelchair lift in the Fillmore County History Center.

Fillmore
Recipient
The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000

The Givens Foundation will host a African American Literary Conference, slated for April 2025, to explore emerging themes, trends, and issues in Black American literature. Our collaboration with the Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature will elevate the discourse, fostering critical engagement. 1) Public Forum: Engaging the general public, as well as emerging and established writers, scholars, critics, agents, publishers, booksellers, educators, and students.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Chisago County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To upgrade the museum environmental controls in the 1879 Gustaf Anderson House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Chisago
Recipient
Granite Falls Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,800

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Andrew J. Volstead House, a National Historic Landmark.

Chippewa
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,945
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To assess the structural support system of the Andrew J. Volstead House Museum, a National Historic Landmark.
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,000

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the preservation of Andrew J. Volstead House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,990
To complete stabilization and rehabilitation of the masonry foundation and footings of the Andrew J. Volstead House, a National Historic Landmark, and used as a community reception space.
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Taylors Falls
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Chisago