MMP Highlights

The Montana Memory Project (MMP) continues to provide information on ways to successfully use the new site through this Highlights newsletter and the Highlights section on the home page. 

Library and museum staff members are encouraged to share these with patrons by adding these ideas to your website and sharing through social media outlets.

We've had big news in the works for a while now, and we are excited to finally share it with all of you: we are changing our name! The Montana Memory Project began in 2005, and in the years since we've grown at an astounding rate. Last year we hired our 2nd full time staff member, and launched a new web platform to host content. We've partnered with nearly 100 organizations over the years, and we thank all of them for their hard work to build the program to where it is today.

We think the next big step forward is a change in our name to better align with our mission. Our new name Montana History Portal captures everything we believe we have been working towards all these years, and will continue to work on going forward. The word History is at the center of what we do. Working with libraries, museums, and other organizations around the state, we have compiled over 80,000 historical photographs, documents, books, and much, much more. We also believe that people will find us more easily on the web, as the word History is closer to what we do than the word Memory. Portal is critical because that is what we are: we are a centralized doorway leading the public to the collections of institutions around the state. And of course the word Montana speaks for itself: we are here to tell the story of all Montanans, whether they lived in the 19th or the 21st century!

Starting today, you will begin to see a new look and feel with all of our content, in particular our email newsletters, social media, and help guides. You have probably noticed the new Montana State Library logo (below), which will be a single, unifying logo for all MSL programs, including the Montana History Portal. Over the next month, we will be transforming the website to accommodate the new name and logo, and we are also VERY excited about a total redesign of the look and feel of the site. But don't worry, we are NOT changing the URL, so all of your bookmarks and favorites will work just as the do now.

We are very excited about this new name, and we hope you are as well. So please join us and step on through the Montana History Portal!