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  • Who we are
    • Board and Staff
    • Member Organizations
    • MALHM Teams
    • Contact us
    • Join us!
  • What we do
    • 2021 Conference
    • Advocacy
    • CollectiveAccess
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      • Past Winners
    • Lending Library
    • Mutual Assistance
    • Networking
    • Newsletters
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Online Workshop
​Links & Resources

Tuesday, November 10 at 1pm
HVAC Systems & COVID Strategies
Rebecca Ellis, 
Questions & Solutions Engineering, Inc
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​This session will be focused on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and will explore strategies to implement during the pandemic (and beyond). 

The first part of the workshop, Rebecca will present some common HVAC systems and her recommendations that could be adapted to your context. The second part will be open to specific questions you may have.  Please share what questions or hurdles you are facing with your current HVAC system as you navigate creating COVID safe spaces. Submit questions by Friday, November 6.

Workshop Archives

Tuesday, April 7
Using Grants to Fund Collections Care: Where to Start
Megan Narvey, Minnesota Historical Society
Presentation PDF
Preserving your collections is a high priority, but how do you get started? What’s more important, transferring your collections into archival boxes or changing your lighting to LEDs? How do you fund these projects? The answer is by starting with a General Conservation Assessment and Long Range Preservation Plan. This session will discuss how to apply for a Long Range Preservation Plan grant through MNHS, what to expect during the grant, and how to use the plan when it is complete. 
Wednesday, April 15 
Turning a Thousand Stories into One: How to Tell Your Story
Alan Schutte, Platt Hollow Road 
Presentation PDF
In this session, attendees will be taken through examples on how to find their organizations personality in order to create a consistent brand, carve a marketing niche, and deliver a great experience. We’ll discuss how to focus on the stories that are most relevant to your audience and your community, the ones that make each community special, and how to take those special stories and wrap them in a narrative that can help you stand out more as a destination with your marketing. 
Tuesday, April 21 
The Benefits of Cloud Based Collections Management
Software and Sharing Your Collections with the Public 
Steve Richardson & Brandy Adams, 
Re:discovery Software, Inc.
PRESENTATION PDF
​Join Steve and Brandy from Re:discovery Software as they take us through the benefits of transitioning your collection management to a cloud based system, why now is a good time, and how to get your collection in front of the general public. There will be time for Q & A at the end.
Thursday, April 23 
Documenting Your Historic Structure
Jessica Fortney, Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps
Presentation PDF
Ever notice something new on your historic building and wonder if it has been like that for a day or for years? Photo documentation can be very helpful to create a timeline and a record for your historic building. This session will give helpful hints and tips on how to photograph and document your building in a useful way to help show its condition over time and to ask for help to fix and maintain the buildings. 
Wednesday, April 29 at 10:00am
Museums & Soft Power

Dan Hartman, Glensheen
PRESENTATION PDF
It is easy to lose track of how much power our museums have in everyday life. In fact, we end up not even thinking of our museums having any power. Well, this talk will focus on just how much influence or soft power museums have and how we can weld that to help build relevance, donations and advocacy. 
Tuesday, May 5 
CollectiveAccess Demo

Ann Grandy, CollectiveAccess Project Manager
Come see what all the buzz is about! CollectiveAccess is an online, open source based collections management software available through the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums.  The software is designed to include many of the features of other collection management software programs that are in use by institutions in Minnesota but with additional features to make it easier to use and more efficient.  Using the power of collaboration, CollectiveAccess allows multiple organizations to use the same software but control costs related to server space, storage, and system customization.
Presentation PDF
Tuesday, May 19
The Future of Volunteering
Interactive Session/Discussion
Claudia J. Nicholson, The Museum Lady
Presentation PDF
Many institutions rely upon volunteers to carry out much of would be considered staff work (or, in some cases ALL the work). As the current crop of volunteers age out, we are going to have to find new ways to get both basic staff work and the usual work done by volunteers (such as guiding tours, and taking objects out to the community). However, the face of volunteerism is changing. Younger people, Gen X and Millenials, express a strong preference for  meaningful volunteer experiences that are time-limited, social, and make an immediate difference to the institution.

Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums: Peers Helping Peers Since 1991

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General contact:
Gibson Stanton, Alliance Coordinator
​gibson@mnhistoryalliance.org
1031 Wilson Avenue
​St. Paul, MN 55106
​612-500-7460

Contact

Financial office:
Holly Johnson, Treasurer
Hormel Historic Home
208 4th Ave. NW
Austin, MN 55912
507-433-4243
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This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.