Mothers Day Event Historical Society Hosts February Lunchbox Lecture Lunchbox Lecture: Mysteries, Mischief, and Mayhem of Murray County 2021 Cemetery Tour – Slide Show Drive Through Comfort Food Fundraiser MCHS Annual Meeting Summer Raffle Fundraiser Winners Second Annual Cemetery Tour Calling all Tree Decorators – Holiday Open House Traveling Exhibit Makes a Stop at the MC Museum Small Grant Awarded for Collections Project 2021 Front Porch Music Series Frank Thayer: An Architect’s Story by Rose Moudry Baseball of Murray County by Bill Bolin Call for Project Bids Dinehart Lecture: Railroads of Murray County Lunchbox Lecture – Murray County in the 1920s PowerPoint Large Grant Awarded for Work on Dinehart Holt House Lunchbox Lecture – Draining the Great Oasis Lunchbox Lecture – Cemetery Tour Slide Show Self-Guided Cemetery Tour Covid-19 Self Interview Take Home History — Free Educational Packets for Children Murray County Historical Society Receives SMAC Grant for 2020 Dinehart Holt House Front Porch Music Series Murray County Historical Museum “Doing Our Bit” Murray County Historical Museum has another great year! Lunchbox Lecture – Nov. 14 Walt Benton and his Music Preservation Tips: LUNCHBOX LECTURES – SEASON SIX VOLUNTEERS NEEDED International Holiday Traditions 2019 Annual Meeting Glensheen: The Musical Mnopedia Story – Sweetman Catholic Colony 2018 Fundraiser A Tale of Twenty Typewriters: The Process of Deaccession Become A Member Dinehart Holt House Historic Structure Report Mnopedia Story – Chandler-Lake Wilson Tornado (1992) Mnopedia Story – Murray County Mnopedia Story – Minnesota’s First Female Sheriff – from Murray County Mnopedia Story – Murray County Fair Legacy grant helps Museum hire a writer for MNopedia Articles New in the Collection Legacy grant helps Museum Purchase a new Microfilm Reader Keeping the Collections: Deaccessioning Textile Inventory Project Waning Years of the 1891 Murray County Courthouse Brought to Light

Donate

Donations help us purchase collections care materials, create new exhibits, and host programs such as the Lunchbox Lectures and the Front Porch Music Series. There are several ways to donate to the MCHS. All donations are truly appreciated!

Become a Member

Memberships are a great way to support and donate to the MCHS. Memberships last one year and come with a variety of perks including: the MCHS quarterly newsletter, free admission for Dinehart Holt House Tours, and free use of the research area. Download the Individual/Family or Business Membership below.

Individual/Family Membership Form

Business Membership Form

Monetary Donations

Monetary donations can be mailed to the MCHS at PO Box 61; Slayton, MN 56172. We are excited to announce that we are now able to accept donations online as well. Click Here to go to our GiveMN page where you can donate to us online.

Collection Donations

The Murray County Historical Society accepts many different kinds of artifacts, including documents, photographs, clothing, and other miscellaneous items. We would love to accept anything and everything related to Murray County, however, storage space is limited. Thus, items that we accept must meet certain criteria as outlined in our collections policy. That criteria includes relevance to Murray County history, condition of the item, if there are other similar objects already in the collection, whether or not we can reasonably store and display the item, and if it has supporting information.

Please DO NOT send items through the mail unless asked to do so by museum staff. The history of the item is very important to collect – we have a responsibility to maintain accurate records of artifacts. When we receive an unsolicited item through the mail we are not able to meet the appropriate standards, therefore we are unable to accept the item into our collection.

Amazon Wishlist

Another way to donate is by purchasing items from our Amazon Wish List. All the items on our wish list will be used at the museum for either collections care or programming. Items can be mailed directly to the museum.

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