A Love for Making
From the Sandy Spieler digital collection| Hennepin History Museum
Artist seangarrison at the live painting experience co-sponsored by Hennepin History Museum in 2021. May 8, 2025 Dramatic technological, cultural, and systemic change has been swirling around us all for many years now. As historians who look back at key moments and movements that have shaped our world, it is a strange [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Frank S. Harris, Minneapolis Fire Department, 1904.| Hennepin History Museum
By: Nina Clark 4/2/2024 Bjorkman's dressing gown from the HHM collection. Hennepin History Museum (HHM) has five objects in its collection that carry the label of Roy H. Bjorkman, a former Minneapolis apparel retailer. These items from his eponymous shop include a white silk gown, a cotton sundress, a blue wool jacket, [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Note from one of Hennepin History Museum's former directors, Joseph Zalusky, written on framed 1861 map of St. Anthony and Minneapolis. ...Or why we deaccessioned an 1861 St. Anthony-Minneapolis Map One answer to the question above is, I hope so, and hopefully for the better. Another possible answer is, maybe not, the [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Steamboat on Lake Minnetonka. Whether above the waves or below, the charm of the Minnehaha stays afloat. By Elizabeth Vandam Gordy Pederson, born in 1916, recalled "his small hand fit perfectly into his mother's" while waiting at a dock on Lake Minnetonka to board the streetcar boat named Minnehaha. That was in [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Bill of sale for Slye family slave called London, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1722 I’m sure you’re aware that Hennepin History Museum has an archive of historic documents and photos, but we also have digital collections. Although we don’t have a digital collection on our website, items are available on other platforms [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Original stone carvings and stained-glass windows after restoration. A raging fire can be the final blow to an aging building. The historic Oakland at 215 South 9th Street, now mostly encircled by surface parking, was ablaze on October 9, 2016, and the buildings future was never more uncertain. Demolition seemed all but [...]| Hennepin History Museum
BY SUSAN WEINBERG When I first began genealogy research, I went out every year to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. At that time, records were not digitized, and research meant cranking through microfilm. Today, technology has changed the way we access digitized records from our home computers, as they are now [...]| Hennepin History Museum
Explore Hennepin County History Online with the Minnesota Digital Library| Hennepin History Museum
