Hmong Museum Receives $125,000 in Grants to Support Cultural Preservation and Education St. Paul, MN – The Hmong Museum is proud to announce that it has received combined grants of $125,000 from the Minnesota Humanities Center, The St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation, and the FR Bigelow Foundation. The grants will be used to support the museum’s mission of […]
WELCOME BOUAKOU LO! We are happy to welcome Bouakou Lo as our new Administrator. She will support Hmong Museum through her superb administrative and organizational skills. Lo currently works at Hennepin County in Health and Human Services Department as an Administrative Assistant. She earned her BA in Sociology and Anthropology and completed her MBA at Concordia University […]
NORTHERN SPARK AWARDS $6,000 GRANT TO ARTISTS, TOU SAIKO LEE Tou Saiko Lee is amongst the few local artists who were chosen through a competitive grant to create an immersive exhibition, Hmong Tattoo Exhibit, that opens on June 10, 2017 during the Northern Spark, an all-night arts event put on by Northern Lights.mn. His artist […]
Hmong Vietnam War Vets Fight for Full Military Burials By Emil Guillermo 11/11/2014 In the 1960s and 70s, the CIA recruited Vang Pao to organize a Hmong fighting force to join America’s “secret war” against the North Vietnamese in Laos. When the war ended, 35,000 Hmong soldiers died, according to Rep. Jim Costa, (D-Fresno). The […]
