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Summer Hours

Monday - Friday 10:00am-4:00pm  Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm

 

$5.00 Admission

 

Members Free

Youth and Students are Free

 

 

Research Library Hours

 

Monday - Friday 10:00am-4:00pm

Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm

$5.00 Admission

 

Closed 12:00-1:00 for lunch

Exhibits

1st Floor Exhibit - Century Farms

2nd Floor Exhibit - Wanda Gag Exhibit

3rd Floor Exhibit - U.S.-Dakota War

Bessie Church Annex Exhibit

1914 Popcorn Wagon

Menzel Christmas Village

 

Other Happenings

Women's History Luncheon Event

Kitty Lieb Essay Contest

One Room School House

Art of Remembering - "Art Reflective of the Time Created"

 

Kitty Lieb Essay Contest Reception

May 13th, 2013

Railway Restaurant & Bar

300 1st Ave N, Sleepy Eye, MN 56085

A short reception and presentation of awards will be taking place for the winners

of the Kitty Lieb Essay Contest.

 

Kitty Liebe Essay Contest Rules for 2013 - click here

Kitty Lieb Essay Contest Entry, Permission and Cover Sheet - required - click here

 

SELECTED  PAST ESSAYS

·         Wesley Simon: The Man behind Grandpa's Homemade Horseradish by Barbara C. Becker

·         Father Alexander Berghold: A New Ulm Legend by Donald J. Brand

·         German P.O.W.'s in New Ulm Minnesota Camp: by Catherine A. Eckstein

·         The Strangling Angel of Children: Diphtheria in Brown County 1870-1889 by Darlene Filzen

·         Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919 by Darlene Filzen

·         Winkelmann's Lime Kiln in Cottonwood Township, Brown County, Minnesota by JoAnne Griebel

·         Letters Home from World War 1 by Anna Krzmarzick

·         The Night of the Wind: The Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 by Monica Sturm

·         Sep, Hank, the Sisters and the Tauer Prairie by Rosemary Tauer

·         Turner Tensions: How Robert Nix was fired from the New Ulm Public School System by Aaron West

·         Clear Lake School District 6/179, 1864-1971: "The Good Years" by Gary Wiltscheck

·         The Story of Franz Sigel by Gary Wiltscheck

·         How a Band Defended The Road To New Ulm by Richard Runck

·         The Bard Of The Bass Horn And The Daddy Of The Concertina by Steven Waldschmidt

·         Divine Retribution? by John Isch

Kitty Lieb Essay Contest

2 North Broadway Street, New Ulm, MN 56073

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