Now Hiring: Part-time Executive Director

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Now Hiring: Part-time Executive Director |

For more than 160 years, the Minneapolis Athenaeum has fostered a love of books, ideas, and lifelong learning. As one of Minnesota's oldest cultural institutions, the Athenaeum serves as a gathering place for readers, writers, scholars, and the intellectually curious, connecting people through literature, history, and meaningful conversation. Today, the Athenaeum is entering a new chapter—honoring its rich legacy while expanding opportunities for community engagement, partnerships, and public programs that inspire curiosity and strengthen civic life.

Dedicated to acquiring and preserving books and manuscripts and making them available to the public.

Highlights of the collection include an original hand-colored edition of Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of 152 editions of Aesop's Fables spanning 300 years, and many important early books with descriptions and photographs of Native American Indigenous Peoples of North America. The collection is used by everyone from students working on History Day projects to a decoy carver researching waterfowl illustrations.

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