Murray County will soon be represented on the MNopedia website, a site dedicated to discovering and disseminating the history of our great state. Similar to Wikipedia, the site is considered a resource for reliable information about significant things, places, events, and people from our past. Each topic has a short essay included. There will be […]
Posts from 2016
New in the Collection
Last spring Paul Moran, of St. Joseph, MN, made a significant donation to the museum with his great-grandfather’s 1860’s Wesson rifle. The museum had a photo of Paul’s ancestor, John Moran, in a stylish fur coat, purported to be a buffalo coat. The rifle was made by the Frank Wesson Company and was patented in […]
Legacy grant helps Museum Purchase a new Microfilm Reader
The museum has installed a new Scan Pro 2000 microfilm reader, scanner, and printer in the research area. Thanks go to an Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant provided by the Minnesota Historical Society with funds provided from the 2008 Legacy Amendment voted on by the citizens of Minnesota. This new microfilm reader works in a […]
Keeping the Collections: Deaccessioning
In the last few issues we have discussed our collections policy, how we bring new items into the collection and how we try to preserve them the best way we can once they are donated. But what about items that do not belong in the collections or items that have deteriorated to the point they […]
Textile Inventory Project
Murray County Museum receives Textile Inventory Grant In December the museum received notice that their application for a Legacy grant had been accepted. The funds from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund will be used to hire a part-time temporary position to catalog and re-house the clothing in the museum textile collection. That sounds […]
Waning Years of the 1891 Murray County Courthouse Brought to Light
When the courthouse was torn down in 1981 amid a wave of protests and opinions on both sides of the issue, most people remember it as a short and hard fought battle. The push for a new courthouse, however, was a long and very arduous task. The first calls for a new courthouse began as […]