Featured event
Winter Frolic
Sat., Jan 22, 2022, Noon - 4:00 pm
Shake off the winter blues by heading outdoors at the Snake River Fur Post. Learn about winter travel during the fur trade and join us for fun outdoor activities.
Featured offerings
Shop MNHS books
Browse our selection of titles relating to the people, history, and culture of Minnesota
Distance learning resources
Online and low-tech educational resources to support Minnesota's teachers and students.
Researching your family history
Research your family's history online with our digital resources.
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.
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.
Positively Gay Cuban Refugee Task Force
From MNopedia: Minneapolis organizers helped ninety gay Cuban men fleeing the regime of Fidel Castro find new homes in Minnesota in the summer of 1980.
Voices From Pejuhutazizi
The book Voices From Pejuhutazizi, from MNHS Press, is rich trove of stories told by five generations of a Dakota family.
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.
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.
