Brown County Historical Society Museum
Winter Hours
Monday - Friday 10:00am-4:00pm Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm
Research Library Hours
Monday - Friday 10:00am-4:00pm* Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm
*Research Library will be closed over lunch hour 12:00-1:00pm
Other Exhibits
2nd Floor Brush Strokes Exhibit
2nd Floor Stitch in Time Quilt Exhibit
2nd Floor New Ulm Room Exhibit
Other Happenings
Women's History Luncheon Event
Art of Remembering - "Art Reflective of the Time Created"
2011 Kitty Lieb Essay Contest Winners
1st Place: Gary Wiltscheck - 40 Years Later
2nd Place: Don Brand - New Ulm Battery: the USA's Only Private Army
3rd Place: Barbara Becker - Anton Gag: Painter, Photographer, Father
Honorable Mention: Dorothy Kahle - A Censer, A Censor
Due to the large amount of events being planned for the 150th Commemoration of the U.S.-Dakota War in 2012, there will be NO Kitty Lieb contest in 2012.
SELECTED 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
Visit our new website devoted to the 150th Anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
2 North Broadway Street, New Ulm, MN 56073
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