Hmong Museum Begins Fundraising for Hmong Storytelling Project Through Give To The Max Day

In an effort to preserve traditional Hmong storytelling, the Hmong Museum will begin fundraising for a new production, “Hmong Chronicles,” on Give to the Max Day Nov. 12. Funds raised will match a $20,000 award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through its Knight Arts Challenge. “At Knight we believe in the […]

Thoughts of Museums

What are museums? The term museum comes from mouseion, institution of the muses, and often refers to the Mouseion of Alexandria built in 309 BC. A home to poetry, art, and science where, it is said that, 1000 scholars would convene at any one time. Museums today are places that preserve art, ethnographic, and natural […]