Work in Minnesota Students step into the shoes of working people in Minnesota from the 1930s and 1940s and experience their jobs first-hand. Photographs, newspapers and personal stories give a worker's view of a labor strike, a railroad car inspection, life on a dairy farm, and other work experiences. Home Place Minnesota Voices, images and artifacts bring to life memories and emotions about the land and people of Minnesota. Students connect their own experiences of home with the ideas of home presented in this multimedia production. Minnesota A to Z Organized around the alphabet, objects from Minnesota history illustrate the diversity, breadth and depth of the Society's collections.
Students can touch, look and listen.
This exhibit explores the role that music has played in Minnesotans' lives. Polka bands, rock groups, American Indian powwows, church choirs, orchestras, homemade sing-alongs, garage bands, piano lessons and amateur marching bands all are part of the musical magic visitors will encounter. In Minnesota's brief nine years as a territory, its population exploded, thousands of fortunes were made and lost, hundreds of communities began to take shape, and a broad spectrum of people first met each other face to face. Students arrive at the levee and experience life in the territory through the eyes of real historical figures such as Harriet Bishop, James Goodhue and Joseph Rolette. Whatever Minnesotans do, the weather always plays a role in it.