Como Friends is the nonprofit fundraising partner of Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. Leveraging community support to continue a century-long commitment to free access while improving the zoo and conservatory for a 21st century audience is core to Como Friends whose mission is to “inspire community generosity to advance Como Park Zoo & Conservatory as a destination where people from all walks of life can gather, learn and enjoy the natural world.” Como Friends has been the driving force behind progressive new animal care and training programs, restoration and expansion efforts for the historic Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, the rise of naturalistic new animal habitats at Como Zoo, and a six-fold expansion of Como’s conservation education programs, such as Blooming Butterflies, STEM-based school programs and teen-run interpretive programs. This successful public/private partnership has invested more than $34 million in improvement projects at Como, allowing Como to serve nearly a million school-age children each year, while preserving the free admission that nearly 70 percent of our visitors depend on.

Plains Art Museum, a nonprofit, regional fine arts museum in Fargo, N.D., is accredited by the American Association of Museums and offers approximately 12 special exhibitions along with smaller exhibitions each year featuring area and national artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The main museum has galleries on three floors, with a breath-taking open atrium at the center. Also within the museum is Hannaher’s Inc. Print Studio, and The Store, a gift shop filled with unique and artful finds, and The Blue Goose Cafe, offering an array of tasty lunches. Additional galleries are located within the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center for Creativity, a multipurpose arts facility attached to the museum via a skybridge. The Center for Creativity provides art classes and studios, and houses the region’s premier ceramics facilities.

Great Lakes Aquarium is a community gathering space that supports a positive personal attachment to the Lake Superior region through hands-on discovery, engagement and programming.

The Children's Museum of South Dakota seeks to transform the world by inspiring generations to love learning and believe that life is full of possibilities. We spark imagination for all children and their grown-ups through play, creativity, and discovery. With more than 44,000 square feet of indoor play space on 4 acres of prairie, we tell the story of our connection between land and culture in the Midwest region. Guests are encouraged to use their imagination and explore using more than 5,000 lose parts and props, but we may be most famous for housing the country's largest animatronic dinosaur, Mama T. Rex.

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Lake Superior Railroad Museum is a museums and institutions company based out of 506 W Michigan St, Duluth, Minnesota, United States.

IRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is a museums and institutions company based out of 1005 DISCOVERY DR, Chisholm, Minnesota, United States.

As a Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Russian Art, the only institution in North America dedicated solely to the art of the Russian-speaking world, I played a crucial role in preserving and showcasing the museum's unique collection. My responsibilities encompassed a range of tasks that contributed to the museum's mission of promoting and preserving Russian art and culture. My key responsibilites were artifact cleaning and conservation, systematic documentation and photography of artifacts for database purposes, gallery installation, and conducting a specialized inventory of the Museum of Russian Art's one-of-a-kind matryoshka collection.