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The website is revived
Our website is coming back to life, slowly but surely. The museum is still closed due to COVID-19 but that doesn’t mean there isn’t activity going on behind the scenes. You’ll find small updates here and there through out our site. Most notably is the addition of our online museum galleries. You will find that…
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Throw us some Shade!
Last year we received a small grant that allowed us to have a study done of the lighting conditions in our various galleries. Good lighting not only makes visiting our Museum more enjoyable, it also protects our artifacts from damage. The study was conducted by Richard Rummel of Rummel Design. Broadly speaking Richard made two…
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Wedding Dresses
Since 2013, the Polish Museum’s Collections Project Manager Mara Streberger has been conducting a detailed wall-to-wall inventory of the Polish Museum’s holdings. The inventory is funded by Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. In a recent Winona Daily News article, contract museum registrar Rose Kubiatowicz of St. Paul…
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The Original Hot Fish Shop!
On my “Smiles in Boxes” blog, I have a post about the picture below, entitled Seventh and Mankato. Believe it or not, this building at Wabasha and Mankato was not just a combination of grocery store and saloon… it ended its days as the original Hot Fish Shop!