Welcome to the Minnesota Public Radio Archive
Below you will find ever evolving curated collections highlighting diverse, historically relevant, and special interest content. Each collection contains audio stories of a particular subject, represented in chronological order. Explore our state and its people!
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Sonic Explorers
Step into a world of weird and wonderful sounds with this collection of unique music from the MPR Archive. It’s where curious ears meet wild ideas—filled with unexpected noise, bold creativity, and sonic adventures.
Hmong life in Minnesota
The Hmong experience in Minnesota is a story is 50 years old. MPR has captured moments along the way and the Archive presents a handful to illustrate the decades journey. The Hmong people’s resettlement to the U.S. is one of complexity and challenges. As refugees from war, the Hmong community have faced an intense language barrier, a generational divide, culture clashes, and changing gender roles…successes resulting in momentous achievements in the likes of politics, arts, business, and sports. Through it all, they created a home for family and clan in the northland.
Minnesota Twins
It’s another Major League Baseball season, and hope springs eternal for an exciting Minnesota Twins team to watch. Win or lose, cold or hot, Minnesotan’s have a special place in their sporting hearts for the annual pastime.
Award Collection
Since our beginning, the stations and programs affiliated with Minnesota Public Radio and later American Public Media, have endeavored to create quality programming for the community and audiences we serve, in keeping with our mission of public service. We have been honored that so many of the talented individuals and teams and their programs have won prestigious industry and audience awards; the MPR Archive is proud to highlight and present these winners in a way that celebrate the award recipient along with the subjects, stories, and communities that demonstrate public media's meaning and impact.
