Resources

 

Robbinsdale Historical Society provides members and visitors with a wide variety of local history resources. Find out  about local neighborhoods, schools, and some of the prominent citizens from our past. Whether you are just browsing or you’re interested in doing more intensive research, the materials in the museum and on our website are available to all!

Here a some other outside resources of interest.

 

MNCollections is a website provided by the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums to display documentary evidence of our past through the collections of historical and cultural organizations across the state. Many of these institutions serve multiple functions, whether operating as local history museums and/or archives, art galleries, cultural organizations, and interpretive centers. You can explore items from the Robbinsdale Historical Society’s collection by clicking here.

Thanks to funding from the Minnesota Legislature’s Legacy Grant Program, we are working to inventory, organize, and catalog our collections. Learn more about it here.

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.

 

Discover the story of Lilac Way. Lined with 7,000 lilac bushes, it was a 12.5 mile ‘Showcase Section’ of Highway 100. Restore Lilac Way is a civic project conceived, written, designed, and maintained by Karen Laukkonen

 

The Robbinsdale Historical Society has been working with the Terrace Legacy Project to preserve  memories and artifacts from the Historic Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale (1951-2016). You can learn more and contribute to these efforts by visiting the Terrace Legacy Project page at the America’s Classic Cinemas website. Maintained by David Leonhardt, the mission of America’s Classic Cinemas is to locate, explore, and photograph historic theaters and movie palaces across the US.

High resolution photos from our collection are  available at the Minnesota Digital Library’s Minnesota Reflections website. Click here to explore these historic images.