Director Update – Winter 2025-2026 Membership Renewal Director’s Update – Fall 2025 Updates from End-O-Line Railroad Park and Museum Collections Committee Members Needed Parade of Trees What Led to the Lake Shetek Massacre? A Carved Treasure Returns A Look Back at the Slayton Library’s 85 Years Extra! Extra! Read All About It… Online (Soon)!” The Fulda Depot and the National Register of Historic Places The Poor Farm Buttermakers Baseball Preservation Tips: 100 Years of Education Cemetery Tour – Slide Show Small Grant Awarded for Collections Project Frank Thayer: An Architect’s Story by Rose Moudry Baseball of Murray County by Bill Bolin Dinehart Lecture: Railroads of Murray County Lunchbox Lecture – Murray County in the 1920s PowerPoint Draining the Great Oasis Self-Guided Cemetery Tour Take Home History — Free Educational Packets for Children Murray County Historical Museum has another great year! Walt Benton and his Music International Holiday Traditions Baseball featured on Postcards by PBS Mnopedia Story – Sweetman Catholic Colony Waning Years of the 1891 Murray County Courthouse Brought to Light 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 New in the Collection Keeping the Collections: Deaccessioning

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities at the Murray County Museum

Do you have a passion for history and a talent to share? We’re always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help bring the past to life!

Pioneer Tour Volunteers
Do you know how to:

Make butter
Shell corn
Twist rope
Play old-time instruments
Share pioneer stories?

We’d love your help with our school Pioneer Tours! Join us in educating and entertaining local students as they learn about life in the “old days.”

Help Us Organize History
We’re also looking for volunteers to help file newspaper clippings into our topical and family history files. If you’re organized and enjoy diving into local history, this is a great opportunity.

Interested?
Call Nick Demuth at 507-836-6533 or email us at museum@co.murray.mn.us to learn more or fill out a volunteer application. Thank you for helping us preserve Murray County’s history!