“Preservation is a process — from collection care and planning to digitization and access. We are helping communities save and share their stories before they’re lost.”

Learn about our Community Media Preservation Strategies and help us launch a statewide Archiving Workshops program.

View our Blog post on Preservation Basics: Why Archiving Matters

Our UCVideo Documentary Concept Grant focuses on the Early History of Community Television in Minnesota. See more at our UCV Project page

Learn about the amazing legacy of Intermedia Arts through our Intermedia Arts Archive Project page

Our professional team guides you through the media collection rescue process and helps capture the context and purpose, making these stories and programs more relatable and accessible online for today’s audiences. We do this by offering educational resources and media archive project consulting, production and distribution services.

Contribute to all MN Media Arts activities via our GiveMN Minnesota Media Arts Annual online campaign.

Support the UCVideo legacy via our special GiveMN UCVideo Documentary Fundraiser campaign.

Keep the Intermedia Arts story alive via our GiveMN Intermedia Arts Archive online campaign.

Help support Melisande Charles's pioneering arts legacy via our GiveMN the Melisande Charles Legacy Fund campaign.

Your cultural memories are at RISK because they were recorded on video & audio tapes which are in danger of disintegrating and may be lost forever. NOW those tapes can be saved and digitally restored. Donate today to support Minnesota Media Arts, a nonprofit helping to preserve and share your community’s valuable cultural recordings.

Minnesota Media Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization fostering the production, preservation and access to works of media arts and cultural heritage. Please call or write if you would like to contribute links or ideas to this project. We can post links to your projects and online resources and articles.