Historic Holidays with MNHS.

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Featured event

Baking Traditions: St. Lucia Day

Sat., Dec 11, 2021, Noon - 4:00 pm

Join us in Mill City Museum's Baking Lab to learn about St. Lucia Day and watch a baking demonstration.

Featured offerings

Our Home Native Minnesota exhibit now on view.
Our Past Guides Our Future exhibit now on view at Mill City Museum.
Sinclair Lewis exhibit now on view.
Extraordinary Women exhibit, now on view.
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Shop at MNHS

Find the perfect gift for every history lover on your list.

Students on a field trip at the Minnesota History Center.

Field trips

Connect your students with history on a field trip to a MNHS historic site or museum. Scholarships and subsidies are available to offset transportation and admission costs.

Family History LibGuides.

Researching your family history

Research your family's history online with our digital resources.

History is Now.

History is Now

We are living in a historic moment. Together, Minnesotans and MNHS are capturing and sharing history in real time. Join us in creating conversations that lead to real connection, deeper reflection, new questions, and purposeful action.

Mi Perú-Minnesota

From MNopedia: This multigenerational and multiethnic group has established a presence as one of the primary Peruvian folkloric dance groups in Minnesota.

The Good Berry Cookbook

New from MNHS Press, The Good Berry Cookbook highlights local flavors that celebrate the bounty of Minnesota fields, forests, and waters. 

Fund the Patrick Coleman Chair

Help endow our curatorial position for the acquisition and preservation of books and printed materials, and honor Patrick Coleman's legacy.

History at Home.

Explore online resources

We invite you to learn about history with us online.

MNHS Storytime: Josie Dances

In Josie Dances, an Ojibwe girl’s coming-of-age story, author Denise Lajimodiere highlights her own daughter’s experience at powwow.

Collections Item of the Day: Remembering Robert Bly

Renown Minnesota poet, essayist, and editor Robert Bly passed away this past November. He was a giant in the literary landscape, winning several awards including: the National Book Award (1968) for "The Light Around the Body" (1967), the McKnight Distinguished Artist award in 2000, and the Minnesota Book Awards Humanities Prize for Literature (2006). Bly was named Minnesota’s first Poet Laureate in 2008. Today we share his first published work, "Silence in the Snowy Fields" (1962) and his best seller, "Iron John: a Book about Men" (1990).