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Roseau County Historical Society and Museum

Roseau, Minnesota 56751

121 Center Street East, Ste. 101, Roseau, MN 56751

218-463 -1918 Hours: M–F 9:30 – 5pm

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Sunday Morning Radio Readings – January 2021

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2021 January 3, 10, 17, 24, &, 31, 2021:  Listen to the rest of Jean’s stories, January 31 story concludes the history. Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her […]

Museum OPEN

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The Roseau County Museum is OPEN The museum is open for visitors with a new gallery layout, exhibits, and a traveling exhibit. Regular hours are Monday – Friday, 9:30 – 5 pm. We are open Saturdays 11-4 pm while the traveling exhibit is here, March 13. Admission is free for the museum. We hope you […]

Opening Soon

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We have missed our visitors here at the museum. We are getting closer to opening. The original opening date was supposed to be January 11, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have to push back the date a week. We will be ready to wow you starting January 19. We will have regular hours […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2020 December 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2020: Sheila continues reading from Jean Haugtvedt’s auto-biography for the month of December. Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her daughters, Marlys […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2020 November 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2020: Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her daughters, Marlys Olson. It’s very well-written and interesting. I’ll read some parts of […]

Julglädje Virtual Christmas Show for 2020

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Songs, stories, games and smiles are the hallmarks of Julglädje, translated from Swedish as “Christmas joy.” This year’s annual performance is going virtual on Saturday, November 28, at 4 p.m. Central Time! Gather the family around the computer and make holiday memories with host Tomte Kajsa (aka Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux) alongside Ross Sutter and his […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2020 October 4 & 11, 2020: One of Moranville Township’s schools was written about in the Warroad Pioneer on November 29, 2000.  It was Isabelle Weitemier’s memories of school days in Moranville. Here is her story: I attended District 82, commonly […]

Smithsonian Exhibition displaying at the Roseau County Museum

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Smithsonian Exhibition Exploring the American Workforce Coming to the Roseau County Museum What would life be like without teachers, doctors, or firefighters? Every day Americans are hard at work on farms, factories, in homes or at desks keeping our communities thriving. The Roseau County Museum will explore the professions and the people that sustain American […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 July 5, 2020: The Greenbush Theatre started in the Village Hall in 1924 and was managed by William “Bill” Paulson. Besides managing the theatre, he was a rural mail carrier like his father before him. In 1930 sound equipment was installed […]

Lighting Project Update

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The lighting project is really starting to progress over the last couple of weeks. It started off a bit slow with the museum closure due to Governor Walz’s Stay at Home order and trying to figure out how to handle that situation, then back-ordered items or wrong parts that arrived. Bergstrom’s Inc. of Wannaska has […]

Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2020 May 3, 2020: Today I’ll be sharing another polio survivor’s story. This is about Carolyn Sabourin. She grew up in Malung, the daughter of Bob and Irene Snow. She had an older sister, Cindy, and a twin sister, Cherlyn. Carolyn […]

Sunday Morning Radio Reading – March 2020

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Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2020 March 1, 2020: Modern highways have greatly changed transportation by automobile. Travel is vastly different from what it was in 1927 when Andrew Rasmussen made a trip to Pipestone in a Model T Ford. So different that his story about […]

Temporarily Closed

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Roseau County Historical Society & Museum Public Announcement March 17, 2020   On March 16, Minnesota Governor Walz released an emergency executive order to close “places of public accommodation” March 17 – 27, directing museums to close to the public.  The museum will be closed to the public starting at 5:00 pm, March 17 through […]

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