Welcome to the museum gift shop
The Edina History Museum Gift Shop carries a select number of items that support our mission of educating the public about Edina history. Proceeds from sales help fund our programs. The gift shop is open during regular museum hours or by appointment. We can ship orders to you or your gift recipient, but please keep in mind that we're a small organization run primarily by volunteers. Allow plenty of time for delivery and call ahead to confirm stock. Also, please note that we can only accept cash or check. (Unfortunately, we're kind of historical that way. We hope to serve you better soon and are looking into handling credit and debit card transactions.) | Gift Shop spotlight: |
Great books and gifts
BooksSuburban history: Edina, Richfield, Bloomington
Filled with hundreds of historic images and illustrations, this hardcover title is as beautiful as any coffee table book. Award-winning author Frederick Johnson put the story in history and produced well-researched and entertaining book that explores the intertwining histories of three neighboring suburbs. New price: $25. Limited quantity remaining.
Nine-Mile Creek history
Historian Deborah Morse Kahn, author of Edina: Chapters in the City History and several other books, turns her attention to the history of Nine Mile Creek as well as the 50-year history of the Watershed District that manages its well-being $9.95 plus tax. Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters
by Edina resident Betty Vos Hemstad. A summer resident on the Gunflint Trail, Betty spent more than 20 years documenting wildflowers from plant to flower to seed pod. Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2009, this book was designed with the hiker in mind. Contents are organized by flower color and the book has a stiff water-resistant cover. $22.95 plus tax Braemar Golf Course history
Braemar: Celebrating the Forty-Year History of Braemar Golf Course is a beautiful coffee-table style hardcover book with full-color photos and funny and true stories from golfers and staff. Author Roger Harrold, Edina resident and retired University of Minnesota faculty member, captures the complete history of Edina's municipal course. $29.95 plus tax. Burma-Shave: the Rhymes, the Signs, the Times
Burma-Shave's rhyming advertising signs at the side of the road made history and became internationally famous. The people behind the shaving cream company and unique advertising were the Odell family of Edina. Author Bill Vossler provides fun stories, photos and a complete index to the hundreds of jingles that kept families entertained on road trips. $14.95 plus tax. The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line
Subtitled A Memory Trip through the Twin Cities, this book provides pages of photos and stories to trigger reminiscences of traveling the Twin Cities by streetcar. Authors Aaron Isaacs and Bill Graham offer a look back at the community when streetcars were the main mode of travel. $12.95 plus tax. Edina: Chapters in the City History
Filled with historic images and printed on high-quality paper, this book is both beautiful and informative. Historian Deborah Morse Kahn writes Edina's colorful past as a Civil War milling crossroads of Yankee Quaker, Irish Catholilc and free Black farming families and its transformation to one of the most beautiful metropolitan communities in the nation. $21 plus tax From Settlement to Suburb: A History of Edina
This book started out as a master's thesis by Edina resident Paul Hesterman and with expansion, the book was published in 1988 during the city's centennial. It remains a great reference today, covering Edina's story era by era and includes a complete index and list of sources. From the Barber's Chair
From the Barber's Chair: 50th and France 1936-1988 shows the amazing changes at Edina's downtown area, as seen by barber Vern Swanson. Author Tom Clark, a Edina High School teacher, captured those memories, and also documented the different eras of the neighborhood with tours and photographs at the back of the book. History & Architecture of Edina, MN
In 1979, the Heritage Preservation Board of the City of Edina conducted a historic building survey of the entire community. The results highlight 28 individual properties and the historic neighborhoods of Morningside, Country Club District and West Minneapolis Heights. The book includes photos and a listing of homes erected before 1900 and between 1900 and 1920. Hopscotch: A Morningside Childhood
Morningside, now a neighborhood of Edina, was once the smallest town in Hennepin County. Barbara (Peterson) Price recalls her childhood on west 45th Street, going with friends to Carlson's Odd Shop and Joyce's Bakery, attending Morningside School and experiencing the simple pleasures of the 1930s and 1940s. | Hand-painted ornaments
NEW! 2010 Convention Grill ornament
Every year since Edina's Centennial celebration in 1988, Edina Historical Society has spotlighted a landmark on its annual Christmas tree ornament. The individually hand-painted ornaments are a small piece of local art with a scene from the community. This year's ornament features a 75-year-old landmark, the Convention Grill, located in the Morningside neighborhood. Our artist handpainted a scene similar to the photo pictured at left.
Popular item! 2008 Edina Hornet ornament
In 2008, we featured the Edina High School mascot, the Hornet, in honor of the school district's 150th anniversary and the high school's 60th in 2009. (Copyrighted image courtesy of Edina Public Schools and artist.) Posters, prints & stationery
 Edina landmark line drawings
Prints include line-drawings (similar to the one above) of several Edina landmarks, such as the Edina Mill, Wooddale School, the Baird House and more. Stationery is available in the same style.
Doors of the Country Club poster
This poster features photographs of the many unique doors of the historic Country Club District on a soft yellow background. Lou Blemaster, realtor with Edina Realty, created this poster several years ago to promote the neighborhood and it quickly became popular with all residents. $15
Edina Mill poster by Leonard Fellman
Artist Leonard Fellman used historic photographs to paint the Edina Mill as it looked at the turn of the century. A farmer with a horse-drawn wagon crosses Browndale Bridge over Minnehaha Creek next to the famous red Edina Mill. Numbered, signed prints. $50.
Sale! T-shirtsAll shirts must go! Only $10 per shirt. Some limited availability of sizes in some styles. Lapel trading pins
We offer a unique lapel pin for trading or a small host gift. The small pin features the Edina Centennial (celebrated in 1988) logo of the Edina Mill in green on a gold background. Trading pins has become popular with sports teams trading with other teams at tournaments or with exchange students wanting to present small gifts from their hometowns. $5 each.
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