Home 2025 | Stearns History Museum

Notice of Schedule Change

Historic Harvest Fest

Join us for our annual celebration of Fall! Historic Harvest Fest is a free event thanks to support from the Central MN Noon Optimist Club. Saturday September 26, 10am-1pm. We hope to see you here!

Join us the second Wednesday of the month at 9:00am for Breakfast Club! This program features speakers and conversations about a wide variety of topic related to Stearns County History. Free for members and $7 for non-members. Coffee and donuts from Cold Spring Bakery. We hope to see you here! Breakfast Club is generously sponsored by the J.A. Wedum Foundation.

Coming up

Explore Our Collection

See history at home. Click below to see a portion of our more than 30,000 three-dimensional collection objects.

Visit the 3-dimensional collection online

Discover Your History

Use our Library and Archives catalog to browse our collections and begin your research.

Online Catalog

Museum Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm

Research Center is open by appointment only on Tuesdays, available for walk-ins Wednesday-Saturday

NOTE: The Research Center will be closed September 1-5 while we process collections and organize the space.

HAPPENINGS & EVENTS

03 September 2026 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

History Unboxed- From Carnegie to Community: Our Public Library

Find out more

10 September 2026 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Hiking Through History: Rockville County Park

Find out more

17 September 2026 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Hops and History: Stearns County Oddities

Find out more

26 September 2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Historic Harvest Fest

Find out more

01 October 2026 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Archive Explorer- Introduction to Searching and Research

Find out more

Our Sponsors

Get News from the Museum

What do you think about getting news and event info from Stearns History Museum sent right to your inbox?
(We love that idea!) If you do too, sign up here—you can opt out at any time.