November 27, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. to Noon
Fee: $18, $5 children ages 6-17, free for children ages 5 and under.
Minnesota Historical Society members are invited to see the new History Center exhibit "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of Better World" before the ...... more
November 27, 2009
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Tour the new exhibit "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" with hands-on activities, music and performances about Franklin's electrifying ...... more
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November 27, 2009 Exhibit Opening
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
You know about Benjamin Franklin’s famous experiment with a kite, a key and some lightning, but did you also know about his rebellious youth? That ...... more
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November 27, 2009 Exhibit Opening
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
View photographs of women faculty at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, taken by Nancy G. Johnson, a fine-art photographer who ...... more
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November 28, 2009
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Tour the new exhibit "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" with hands-on activities, music and performances about Franklin's electrifying ...... more
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November 29, 2009
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Tour the new exhibit "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" with hands-on activities, music and performances about Franklin's electrifying ...... more
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December 1, 2009
Time: 5 to 8 p.m.
Fee: Free
Meet Nancy G. Johnson, photographer for the exhibit "Inventive Women: Portraits of Scientists and Engineers from the University of Minnesota" and ...... more
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December 1, 2009
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Fee: $15, 12 for MHS members
Reservations: required,
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During this workshop, offered in partnership with The Storyboard, writer and producer Susan Marks will help aspiring documentarians build strong ...... more
December 3, 2009
Time: Times vary; call 651-259-3131 or participating sites
Fee: Free
Members receive a 20-percent discount on regularly priced merchandise at the History Center Museum Stores, Mill City Museum and gift shops at ...... more
December 3, 2009
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Fee: Free
Peg Meier, former Star Tribune writer and author of "Bring Warm Clothes" and "Too Hot, Went to the Lake," will be on hand to meet visitors and sign ...... more
December 4, 2009
Time: Times vary; call 651-259-3131 or participating sites
Fee: Free
Members receive a 20-percent discount on regularly priced merchandise at the History Center Museum Stores, Mill City Museum and gift shops at ...... more
December 4, 2009
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Fee: Free
Author Michael Norman will meet visitors and sign copies of "The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends," recently published by MHS ...... more
December 5, 2009
Time: Times vary; call 651-259-3131 or participating sites
Fee: Free
Members receive a 20-percent discount on regularly priced merchandise at the History Center Museum Stores, Mill City Museum and gift shops at ...... more
December 5, 2009
Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $15, $10 MHS members
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015 or register online
Enjoy a concert of classic holiday standards with local tunesmiths, Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard. In support of the History Center's new ...... more
December 5, 2009
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Don Stolz will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of his newly published autobiography, "The Old Log Theater and Me." The theater has ...... more
December 5, 2009
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Fee: Free
Author Bette Hammel and photographer Karen Melvin will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of their book, "The Legendary Homes of Lake ...... more
December 5, 2009
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Fee: Free
Author Betty Vos Hemstad will be on hand to meet visitors and sign copies of "Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters," recently published by MHS Press. ...... more
December 6, 2009
Time: Times vary; call 651-259-3131 or participating sites
Fee: Free
Members receive a 20-percent discount on regularly priced merchandise at the History Center Museum Stores, Mill City Museum and gift shops at ...... more
December 8, 2009
Time: 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Explore the complex life and mind of Minnesota inventor Frederick McKinley Jones, a self-taught engineer who tirelessly pursued innovations that ...... more
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December 12, 2009
Time: 2 to 3:15 p.m.
Fee: Individual tickets: $14; $10 MHS members, on sale September 21.
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015 or register online
Talented polymath Benjamin Franklin focused most of his long life and his prodigious energy on politics. Through his own experiences in America’s ...... more
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December 27, 2009
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
This year's annual family celebration takes place on the second day of Kwanzaa and focuses on the principle, Kujichagulia, a Swahili word meaning ...... more
January 4, 2010 Exhibit Closing
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
The American passion for mobility has shaped Minnesota. Travel back through time to celebrate the promise of the new, reflect on the consequences of ...... more
January 9, 2010
Time: 10:30 to noon
Fee: $10 girls, $5 adults
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015
Explore the exhibit "Open House: If These Walls Could Talk" with a museum guide and discover the stories of the families who lived in one house in ...... more
January 16, 2010
Time: 1 to 3:30 p.m
Fee: $12 girls, $5 adults
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015
What do images and artifacts tell us about the past? In this workshop, explore the "Minnesota’s Greatest Generation" exhibit and examine historic ...... more
January 18, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Use colorful tissue paper and markers to write messages that reflect messages of mutual respect, tolerance and understanding and then make a collage ...... more
January 23, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $12 adults, $5 children ages 6 to 17; $2 discount for MHS member adult ticket only. Tickets include museum gallery admission.
Reservations: required,
register online
This whimsical 90-minute variety show features multi-cultural, multi-generational artists performing and leading the crowd in music, dancing and ...... more
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January 23, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Meet Minnesota legends King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex, performed by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz' Shari Aronson and Christopher Griffith, for a comic ...... more
January 24, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Meet Minnesota legends King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex, performed by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz' Shari Aronson and Christopher Griffith, for a comic ...... more
January 26, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Discover the work of Dr. Martha Ripley (1843-1912), a determined early advocate for women’s health and social equality who was once denounced on the ...... more
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January 30, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Meet Minnesota legends King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex, performed by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz' Shari Aronson and Christopher Griffith, for a comic ...... more
January 30, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:15 p.m.
Fee: Individual tickets: $14; $10 MHS members, on sale September 21.
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015 or register online
A humble, but blunt and pragmatic planner, General George C. Marshall directed both the largest war-time army and the largest post-war recovery plan ...... more
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January 31, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Meet Minnesota legends King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex, performed by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz' Shari Aronson and Christopher Griffith, for a comic ...... more
February 6, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 7, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 9, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Fee: Free
Look inside the mind of the late Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota agronomist who found new ways to sustain the growing global population. ...... more
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February 13, 2010
Time: 10:30 to noon
Fee: $10 girls, $5 adults
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015
Explore the exhibit "Open House: If These Walls Could Talk" with a museum guide and discover the stories of the families who lived in one house in ...... more
February 13, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 14, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 15, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Make a stove pipe top hat to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by using black and copper paper with giant copper pennies for decoration. ...... more
February 20, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:15 p.m.
Fee: Individual tickets: $14; $10 MHS members, on sale September 21.
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015 or register online
As a public health nurse in the New York slums, Margaret Sanger worked with hundreds of mothers who wanted to ease their families’ path out of ...... more
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February 20, 2010
Time: 1 to 3:30 p.m
Fee: $12 girls, $5 adults
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015
What do images and artifacts tell us about the past? In this workshop, explore the "Minnesota’s Greatest Generation" exhibit and examine historic ...... more
February 20, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 21, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
The History Center hosts Trivia Smackdown -- three nights of epic historical trivia contests, high-speed scavenger hunts in the museum, groups games ...... more
February 27, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $12 adults, $5 children ages 6 to 17; $2 discount for MHS member adult ticket only. Tickets include museum gallery admission.
Reservations: required,
register online
This whimsical 90-minute variety show features multi-cultural, multi-generational artists performing and leading the crowd in music, dancing and ...... more
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February 27, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
February 28, 2010
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Explore the museum galleries and hunt for special cards to learn about African American men and women who made significant contributions to the ...... more
March 6, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:15 p.m.
Fee: Series subscription: $76; $54 MHS members, on sale September 1. Individual tickets: $14; $10 MHS members, on sale September 21, pending availability.
Reservations: required,
call 651-259-3015 or register online
As a former slave who became one of America’s greatest social critics, Frederick Douglass spent a lifetime speaking truth to power. Motivated by a ...... more
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March 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
The History Center hosts Trivia Smackdown -- three nights of epic historical trivia contests, high-speed scavenger hunts in the museum, groups games ...... more
March 27, 2010
Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $12 adults, $5 children ages 6 to 17; $2 discount for MHS member adult ticket only. Tickets include museum gallery admission.
Reservations: required,
register online
This whimsical 90-minute variety show features multi-cultural, multi-generational artists performing and leading the crowd in music, dancing and ...... more
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April 20, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
The History Center hosts Trivia Smackdown -- three nights of epic historical trivia contests, high-speed scavenger hunts in the museum, groups games ...... more
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
You know about Benjamin Franklin’s famous experiment with a kite, a key and some lightning, but did you also know about his rebellious youth? That ...... more
See related events.
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
View photographs of women faculty at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, taken by Nancy G. Johnson, a fine-art photographer who ...... more
See related events.
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
This 20-minute multi-media presentation uses voices, images and artifacts to bring to life a range of emotions about Minnesota as a home. Listen as ...... more
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Grainland traces the journey of wheat and corn from farm to town to grain elevator. Children will enjoy climbing through a replica grain elevator ...... more
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Minnesotans do more than talk about the weather. They learn to cope with extreme temperatures, watch for signs of storms and generally enjoy the ...... more
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Visit the "MN150" exhibit at the Minnesota History Center and experience the people, places and things that helped shape our great state, including ...... more
Hours:
Museum and Stores:
Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).
Library:
Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.
Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
This exhibit is the capstone of the Minnesota Historical Society’s Minnesota’s Greatest Generation project. It features more than 6,000 square feet ...... more
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