News & Updates

New for 2025! Winter PeeWee Sessions! 9:30am-11:30am on Wednesdays Gibbs Farm is expanding our popular summer camp program, PeeWees, to include winter-time fun! These mini camps are a perfect introduction for 4 & 5 year-olds who are ready for some independent fun!  Gibbs Farm staff will lead campers through adventures…

Are you ready for an adventure? In 2024, Gibbs Farm has camps for kids aged 4 to 13.  Whatever piques your interest – 19th century farm or Dakota seasonal life, nature, games, farm animals, gardening, tea parties – we have a camp for you!   Gibbs Farm is an eight-acre site…

RCHS opens the Selma 70 exhibit with a panel discussion featuring pilgrims who attended the 50th anniversary of the Selma March in 2015 On April 24, 2025, RCHS hosted panelists Vanne Owens Hayes, Mark K. Boyd, and Otis Zanders as they shared their stories spanning the decades since the Civil…

RCHS hosted a Happy Hour in the Apple Orchard on Friday, May 9, 2025 for our members. Sarah Morris serenaded guests with music as we welcomed spring to the farm and orchard.

Fellows (clockwise from top left) Kalia Vue, Wone Vang, Linda Lor, and KaoLee Vang Ramsey County Historical Society and the Center for Hmong Studies are proud to announce the Hmong Fellowship program designed to preserve the Hmong heritage and culture along with inspire future generations of Hmong Americans to know…

Photo by Caitlin Abrams for MSP Magazine Our Ramsey County Court House public tour is canceled for today (April 7, 2025). We apologize for any inconvenience.

On March 13, 2025, RCHS celebrated over a decade of service and work from Research Assistant, Rich Arpi. Rich Arpi’s career has included twenty years at the Minnesota Historical Society, twelve years as a corporate archivist at St. Paul Companies, six years as an archivist at the Ohio Historical Society,…

Ready for a Summertime Adventure? Registration is now open! Gibbs Farm has camps for kids aged 4 to 14. Whatever piques your interest – 19th century farm or Dakota seasonal life, nature, games, farm animals, gardening, tea parties – we have a camp for you! Gibbs Farm is an…