Join us October 2 for this FREE event where host of the long-running television series, "Mysteries at the Museum" and National History Day board member Don Wildman will discuss the value of history inspiring identity, leadership, and legacy in education. Not an MNHS member? Become a member today, or use code 751002 in the "Member ID Number" field on the event registration page to register for the virtual event. Space is limited.

Use our online resources and the Gale Family Library to research your past and understand the life we share today. Search our extensive database of birth and death certificates and the State Archives. 

The Great Seal of Minnesota was created by men who tied their fortunes to the progress (as they defined it) and settlement of the state, often at the expense of Native Americans. Since the late 1960s, critics of the seal have argued that its imagery reflects an anti-Native American bias. Recent calls to change the seal’s design have sparked new conversations about the symbols that best represent twenty-first-century Minnesota.

Free and full of information for kids of all ages, Making Minnesota offers activities to help readers engage with all things Minnesota—and the history that made it all possible.

Kids will create their own illustrations and drawings, maps, and lists of favorite places, all while discovering the many things that make Minnesota unique.

For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cities life, telling the stories of our people, places, and (sometimes delicious) things. If journalism is the first draft of history, what Dara does—reported features and essays—are more like the first draft of culture.