The Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants is a grant program created with funds appropriated from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and administered by the Minnesota Historical Society.
[1] On November 4, 2008, Minnesotans approved through referendum the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment to add Article XI to the Minnesota State Constitution.
[2] The Minnesota Historical Society's State Historic Preservation Office held public listening sessions November 2008 through January 2009 to gather input from the state's history community, composed of local history organizations, heritage preservation commissions, archaeologists, librarians, genealogists, and many more.
[3] This bill created the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and determined how money dedicated to the ACHF would be appropriated to the Minnesota Historical Society to establish the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants, as well as other state history programs and projects.
On the basis of the facilitated feedback and legislation, the Minnesota Historical & Cultural Grants program was created, and introduced in October 2009.