TRAVELING EXHIBITS

The Minnesota Humanities Center will - for the fifth year - provide logistical and financial support for communities across Minnesota to participate in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street program. Over the past four years, the Humanities Center has partnered with 24 communities - from Waseca to Chisholm, and Pipestone to Roseau - to bring two Smithsonian exhibits Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon, and Key Ingredients: America by Food to the people of Minnesota.

Beginning in Sept. of 2009, the Minnesota Humanities Center will partner with six communities in Greater Minnesota to host a new Museum on Main Street exhibit, Between Fences. Between Fences focuses on every region of the United States. Its subjects include the defining of home, farm, and factory; the settling of the United States; and the making of fences. Read more about the exhibit at the Museum on Main Street web site.

The dates and locations for the Between Fences exhibit are:

Minnesota's Machinery Museum, Hanley Falls
September 5, 2009 - October 17, 2009
 
Dassel Area Historical Society, Dassel
October 24, 2009 - December 5, 2009
 
Zumbrota Area Historical Society, Zumbrota
December 12, 2009 - January 30, 2010
 
Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls
February 6, 2010 - March 20, 2010
 
Roseau County Historical Society, Roseau
March 27, 2010 - May 8, 2010
 
Clearwater County Historical Society, Shevlin
May 15, 2010 - June 26, 2010

For more information on the Between Fences exhibits in Minnesota or to find out how to host future Museum on Main Street exhibits in your community, please contact Tom Fitzpatrick, Director of Community Partnerships, tom@minnesotahumanities.org, 651-772-4255 or toll free 866-268-7293, ext. 255.