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2025 Statewide Tour
Come along for the ride – announcing the Minnesota Humanities Center 2025 Statewide Tour! Committed to sharing news about our grant opportunities, partnerships with schools, our wide range of public programs, and listening to our many stakeholders and collaborators, MHC is launching the 2025 Statewide Tour.
Learn MoreOur Work Fostering Curiosity, Connection, and Compassion
Help Us Unlock a $50,000 Match!
Now is the time to double your impact. Recent cuts by DOGE to the National Endowment for the Humanities have significantly reduced funding essential to the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC).
To help bridge this gap, all donations to MHC will be matched 1:1 by the Federation of State Humanities Councils with support from the Mellon Foundation—up to $50,000. That means every dollar you give goes twice as far in sustaining the humanities programs that strengthen our communities across Minnesota.
Your gift helps us bring stories to life, amplify underrepresented voices, and connect communities through history, culture, and conversation. But we need your help to reach the full match—and we can’t do it without you.
Give today. Double your impact. Support the humanities.
“We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.”
Booker T. Washington
Join Us in Creating a More Unified Society
Learn more about yourself, our communities, and our society or share your unique vision about the human experience or our world.
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Sep
27
St. Paul – Learning from Place: 100 Years of Mexican American Culture on St. Paul’s West Side
Discover the stories, history, and vibrant culture of St. Paul’s West Side—the heart of Minnesota’s Latino community. This immersive experience focuses on The Flats and the Latino Cultural District, a neighborhood shaped by generations of Mexican Americans and now home to the future Minnesota Latino Museum.
Oct
02
Fergus Falls – Reconstruction Destructed Film & Community Conversation
To understand the challenges African Americans still face in being seen as full citizens in America today, it is important for us to understand the origin story of the path of formerly enslaved people becoming citizens. The past is not dead; it is not even really the past.
Oct
03
Fergus Falls – Sketches of Minnesota
Join the Minnesota Humanities Center, Danger Boat Productions, and City of Fergus Falls for the Sketches of Minnesota civic improv comedy tour! These free events use laughter and comedy to celebrate Minnesota communities, promote dialogue, bridge divides, and help find ways to work constructively across differences in today’s political environment.
Oct
03
St. Paul – Objects of War: A Storytelling Circle
In honor of Veterans’ Voices Month, the Minnesota Humanities Center invites you to join us for an engaging evening focused on stories of community, consolation, and courage. For Objects of War, participants are asked to bring an item connected to an experience of war and conflict — which could be dog tags, a service member’s good luck charm, or a family heirloom — and share the story of this item during the evening.
The humanities remind each and every one of us that we are not alone here…When we truly look at what we’re asking and who we are, we can see the beauty that is all around us.
– Dr. Shelly C. Lowe, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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