Minnesota Then
Mission Statement
To inspire and connect communities across Minnesota by making local history come alive through accessible, engaging, and educational digital experiences.
Making Minnesota's history accessible, engaging, and meaningful for everyone.
To inspire and connect communities across Minnesota by making local history come alive through accessible, engaging, and educational digital experiences.
To create inclusive, immersive, and enlightening educational experiences that use technology to uncover and explore Minnesota’s rich and diverse history.
Understanding our local history helps us build a stronger future. By making Minnesota's history accessible, we help people and communities connect with their roots, learn from the past, and shape a better tomorrow.
Making history available to everyone, regardless of location or resources.
Building connections through shared stories and experiences.
Using technology to create engaging historical experiences.
Fostering understanding through meaningful historical content.
Sharing our history - from headline-making moments to the everyday stories that shaped our communities - can create real change. With each story shared, each voice heard, we deepen our understanding of the path that brought us here.
Through these diverse perspectives and experiences, we gain insights that help us build a stronger future together. It's more than just preserving the past; it's about bringing people together, sparking meaningful conversations, and strengthening the connections between neighbors through our shared Minnesota story.
We meticulously research and document historical events, places, and stories from diverse sources and perspectives across Minnesota.
We transform historical content into engaging digital formats that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, ensuring preservation for future generations.
We create immersive experiences that connect digital content to physical locations, allowing visitors to experience history where it happened.
We actively involve communities in sharing and preserving their own histories, creating a more inclusive and authentic historical record.