Minnesota Humanities Center

Host an Exhibit

Bring a traveling exhibit to your community

Bring challenging and engaging content to your community by hosting one of the Minnesota Humanities Center’s three traveling exhibits. Opportunities to host Museum on Main Street’s Spark! Places of Innovation, We Are Water MN, and Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations are available.

Spark! Places of Innovation Host Community Application

Spark! Places of Innovation (Spark!) is a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program. The exhibit dives into innovation and invention happening in rural America.

Applications for 2027 host sites are now open! Find out how you can bring Spark! to your community. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. May 31, 2026.

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We Are Water MN Host Community Application

We Are Water MN builds networks of people who protect and affect water, hosts a traveling exhibit that shares messages about water in Minnesota, and designs public programming that builds relationships with and responsibilities to water.

Applications for 2027 host sites are now open! Find out how you can bring the We Are Water MN exhibit to your community. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. May 31, 2026.

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Why Treaties Matter Host Community Application

The Why Treaties Matter partners seek applications from potential host communities who will use the exhibit in two different ways: those who will develop public programming or resources to supplement the exhibit and those who will share the exhibit and its current resources with their community.

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