Our Collections
The Museum has numerous resources for researchers who are interested in local Hopkins history and genealogy. Our collections include:
Photographs and Maps:
Photographs and Maps:
- More than 8000 photographs from the area of people, places, businesses, schools, etc.
- 1956 Norton & Peele black and white photographs of every home and business within Hopkins
- Approximately 130 maps and plat diagrams, arial photographs and historical atlases of the area
- Hennepin County Review newspapers from the mid-1920s through the late-1960s
- Hopkins Sun and Sun Sailor from the late 1960s to the 2000s
- Over 400 documented family histories and family trees
- 130 oral histories from Hopkins residents
- Our Czech history collection, including many documents in the Czech language
- An extensive collection of Hopkins schools history including yearbooks dating from the 1930s
- WWI and WWII collections including a WWII muster roll with photographs and The Bulldozer, a local newsletter sent to Hopkins area soldiers during WWII
- City and regional address and phone directories dating from the 1900s through the 2000s
- Obituary records, both clippings and within our newspaper collection
- Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company and Minneapolis Moline documents and photographs
- Documents tracing our history as a national food distribution hub, including information about National Tea, Red Owl and SuperValu.
- Railroad and streetcar documents and photographs describing the role these modes of transportation played in our history, including the Yellowstone Trail.
- Other Business, Church and Civic Organization historical records
- Raspberry Festival history and photographs beginning with the first festival in 1935.
- School and business team sports memorabilia including hundreds of team pictures stretching back to the 1890s
- Hennepin County Fair and Czech/Sokol Festival information and photographs.