UPCOMING EVENTS
Works In Progress, Presented by MNSAH – Wednesday March 13, 2024; 7pm-8:30pm via Zoom.
MNSAH invites you to attend Works in Progress on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Presentations include:
MnSHIP – Minnesota’s Statewide Historic Inventory Portal by Ginny Way
For decades, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has maintained an inventory of thousands of buildings, sites, and structures in Minnesota. These records, previously only available in hard copy, have been digitized and are now accessible through MnSHIP, a new website allowing the public to easily locate information about properties throughout the state. This presentation will provide a demonstration of MnSHIP and how to access the wealth of information now readily available about historic properties in Minnesota.
Creating the Multifaith Chapel at MIT, 1938-1955: From William Welles Bosworth to Eero Saarinen by Dr. Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Interfaith or multifaith chapels are so ubiquitous now—present on college campus and in airports, hospitals, and shopping malls—that their development as a distinct architectural form is often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of this building or spatial type was not easily achieved, hindered by several religious and architectural preconceptions. This presentation will focus one influential piece in the process of its development: a transformation in the conceptualization of religious space on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that started with its campus designer and architect William Welles Bosworth in the 1930s and culminated in Eero Saarinen’s innovative Kresge Chapel in 1955.
MnSHIP – Minnesota’s Statewide Historic Inventory Portal by Ginny Way
For decades, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has maintained an inventory of thousands of buildings, sites, and structures in Minnesota. These records, previously only available in hard copy, have been digitized and are now accessible through MnSHIP, a new website allowing the public to easily locate information about properties throughout the state. This presentation will provide a demonstration of MnSHIP and how to access the wealth of information now readily available about historic properties in Minnesota.
Creating the Multifaith Chapel at MIT, 1938-1955: From William Welles Bosworth to Eero Saarinen by Dr. Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Interfaith or multifaith chapels are so ubiquitous now—present on college campus and in airports, hospitals, and shopping malls—that their development as a distinct architectural form is often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of this building or spatial type was not easily achieved, hindered by several religious and architectural preconceptions. This presentation will focus one influential piece in the process of its development: a transformation in the conceptualization of religious space on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that started with its campus designer and architect William Welles Bosworth in the 1930s and culminated in Eero Saarinen’s innovative Kresge Chapel in 1955.
Revisit the Fashion, Culture and History of 1974 with GVHS – Thursday March 14, 2024; 7pm.
As Golden Valley Historical Society turns 50, revisit the fashion, history, and culture of 1974 with the curator of the Goldstein Museum of Design.
As the Golden Valley Historical Society (GVHS) celebrates its Golden Jubilee in 2024, revisit the fashion, history, and culture of 1974 – the Society’s founding year - for a Thursday, March 14 program. Expect a fun and fitting look at what we were wearing 50 years ago by guest presenter Jean McElvain, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD).
To commemorate the era of GVHS’s beginning, she will return us to the fashion and design of the 1970s through images of objects in GMD's over 30,000-piece collection and explore how and why culture gravitated toward colorful excesses from mod miniskirts to polyester leisure suits.
The Goldstein Museum of Design is the only design museum in the Upper Midwest. As its curator, Dr. McElvain brings a deep understanding of many facets of 19th and 20th century design, identifying relationships between everything from fashion to architecture. She uses exhibition curation and design to tell stories and guide research.
The program is at 7:00 pm in the GVHS Historic Church, 6731 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley. It is free and open to GVHS members and the public.
As the Golden Valley Historical Society (GVHS) celebrates its Golden Jubilee in 2024, revisit the fashion, history, and culture of 1974 – the Society’s founding year - for a Thursday, March 14 program. Expect a fun and fitting look at what we were wearing 50 years ago by guest presenter Jean McElvain, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD).
To commemorate the era of GVHS’s beginning, she will return us to the fashion and design of the 1970s through images of objects in GMD's over 30,000-piece collection and explore how and why culture gravitated toward colorful excesses from mod miniskirts to polyester leisure suits.
The Goldstein Museum of Design is the only design museum in the Upper Midwest. As its curator, Dr. McElvain brings a deep understanding of many facets of 19th and 20th century design, identifying relationships between everything from fashion to architecture. She uses exhibition curation and design to tell stories and guide research.
The program is at 7:00 pm in the GVHS Historic Church, 6731 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley. It is free and open to GVHS members and the public.
Docomomo US National Symposium, MIAMI – May 29-June 1, 2024
Join us in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida, from May 29 to June 1, 2024, and experience one of the country’s richest collections of mid-century and postmodern architecture. Entitled Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern, the 2024 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and the Docomomo US/Florida chapter. Miami is a city whose location, diversity and vibrant growth have made it an ideal destination for international travel, business, culture, and leisure. Incorporated in 1896 - though Native Americans inhabited the region for millennia - the city and its greater region are a remarkable landscape described by native Amerindians as a slowly flowing “river of grass,” with a thin strip of buildable land stretching along its coastline. The region became an escape for post-World War II middle America, shaped largely by the desire for leisure and entertainment. Over the past decades, Miami has become a laboratory to explore new urban patterns, building types, evolving aesthetics, and emerging environmental consciousness. |