All Projects

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

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

To hire a qualified professional to assess the archival collections held by Ramsey County Historical Society.

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of Beth El Synagogue in Minnesota.

To design, produce, and install historical markers for National Register properties in the City of Birchwood Village.

To document in 15 oral history interviews the history of African American educators in Minnesota.

The Equity Alliance MN will bring to life absent narratives of Latino, Hmong, Native, Asian, African American, and women of the Civil Rights Era in a collaboration among youth, social studies teachers, Full Circle Theater (FCT), and St. Paul Neighborhood Network. The narratives, researched by youth, will be transformed by FCT into a six person play that will be presented, video recorded, and distributed with accompanying curriculum written by social studies teachers for teachers across the Equity Alliance MN and the state.

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

To publish a history of the Cedar Lake Park Association, a volunteer citizens' group.

Crossing Mountains is a highly collaborative effort by a coalition of Hmong artists to create a sweeping story of two generations of Hmong women who escape Laos to Minnesota. Their story is one of sacrifice and hardship and ultimately hope and redemption. Inspired by the real story of an amazing Hmong woman from Minneapolis, this Hmong opus will use ballet to share the Hmong story of escape from Laos to acclimating in a strange new land.

To hire a qualified historian to research the 150-year history of St. Paul's Central High School.

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota aims to strengthen its highly successful School Service Program by retaining a Program development coordinator, changing core interactive exhibits and creating new curriculum for pre-school and K - 5 students in ten northern Minnesota counties.

To gain physical and intellectual control through a professional inventory of remaining uninventoried museum collections.

To gain physical and intellectual control through a professional inventory of approximately 3,800 objects documenting Ramsey County history.

To document a public series of native and non-native lecturers discussing Dakota culture, relationship with the US government, and the 1862 Dakota War.

We seek MHC support for three core exhibit activities:

To create and install an exhibit on the history of veterinary medicine in Minnesota.

To complete fabrication and installation of the Dakota Medicinal Plant Garden exhibit.