Bringing History Home

Please help us as we bring history home, wherever that may be for you.  

We're developing online and digital initiatives that will preserve Lake Minnetonka history and make it accessible to students, seniors, people living in the Lake Minnetonka community today and those who are now far away but long to revisit their past.  

Please support us as we document and bring context to these extraordinary times.  

• We're adding digital images of historic Lake Minnetonka artifacts and photographs to our CollectiveAccess online exhibit here. 
• We're collecting your memories and sharing historic images of Excelsior's Water Street through "Water Street Wednesdays" on Facebook and Instagram. 
• We're preserving your COVID-19 pandemic stories and artifacts. We've found little information about the 1918 pandemic in the south Lake Minnetonka area. Help us ensure that this historic time is well documented by sending your stories to info@elmhs.org.  
• We're creating a Lake Minnetonka History tour. We're partnering with the Deephaven, Minnetonka, Westonka and Wayzata Historical Societies to create a tour of historic places around Lake Minnetonka that you can visit by car, bike, foot and online.  Stay tuned!

Gifts of any size are welcome. We thank you. Future generations will thank you.