Collections
- Hopkins City and Business — Early records of jailhouse rolls, court dockets, accounting ledgers, diaries and many other documents trace the civic and economic development of Hopkins.
- Books
- Public Records — Tax information, land acquisition and usage papers, school enrollment and attendance, newspapers
- Paintings
- Photographs — The museum holds over 5000 vintage and newer photos of people, places and things dear to all Hopkins-philes. One special file contains black and white photographs of each home in Hopkins street-by-street from 1954.
- Furniture —A fine collection features school and company desks, chairs and beautiful oak cabinetry.
- Sculpture — Pieces dating from some of Hopkins’ first churches
- School Memorabilia — This includes many local trophies and awards, and Hopkins school yearbooks dating from the 1920s and ’30s on up.
- Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company, Minneapolis Moline Plant and Office — The museum contains many fascinating artifacts from one of Hopkins’ best-known employers through the 1950s and 60s.
- Wartime — Wartime holdings include many WWII artifacts.
- Religious — Hopkins is and has been the site of many places of worship.
- Video — The society has transferred 16 mm film to video. Come in and watch films from the archives of the society.
- Audio — Many aspects of Hopkins life are preserved at the society in the words of local families on audiotape. The society holds over 100 audio-taped memories of its citizens.
- Printed materials — volumes held by the society include city records, Hopkins telephone directories dating from the 1930s to the present, local Women’s Club records from 1908 through the 1980s, vintage maps of the community as far back as 1854, obituary and other vital statistics records (some on microfiche), 1960-present.
- Family Memorabilia — Scrapbooks, sheet music, family genealogies and photographs. Read the 1872 diary of George M. Burnes – a year in the life of a young Hopkins farmer.
- Newspapers and Magazines — include Hennepin County Review (once a local newspaper published in Hopkins), 1925-1961, Sun Sailor Newspapers, 1969-, Life and Look magazines, Saturday Evening Post.
- Other Links — History of the Hopkins Westwind Concert Band
