Great River Road Network of Museums and Interpretive Centers Nomination Form

Thank you for your interest . This is a network of museums and interpretive centers about the Mississippi River along the Great River Road. It is not our intent to select every museum or interpretive center along the Mississippi River, even though we recognize there are hundreds of museums that are doing excellent work. Our goal is to have a network of premier institutions that are willing to work together to further the interpretive and marketing goals for the Great River Road. The first step in this nomination is to contact your MRPC state chair or a member of your state commission. Their input and support in your nomination is very important. Completion of this nomination does require time and completion of all the requested information, including photos and letters of support. Do not let the space provided limit your responses. There are currently two model nominations to use as reference in completing your nomination. Click here.

The institution must interpret the Mississippi River or some significant aspect or relationship to the river with a high level of quality, commensurate to the level of size, staffing and funding, and be open to the public on a published, regular basis.

Letters of support and a letter of endorsement by your state Mississippi River Parkway Commission Commissioner are encouraged.

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Nominations can be submitted directly on this form or if using a PDF, scanned and emailed to [email protected] or mailed to directly to the Mississippi River Parkway Commission Office, PO BOX 7395 | Madison, WI 53707-7395. Nominations are reviewed at quarterly MRPC Culture and Heritage committee meetings but nominations must be received at least 30 days prior to the meeting date. Please include a letter of endorsement by your state Mississippi River Parkway Commission Commissioner.

Nominations are reviewed by the Culture and Heritage Committee of the National Mississippi River Parkway Commission. This committee has representation from all 10 states of the Mississippi River. Nominations are then approved by the Board of Directors of the National Mississippi River Parkway Commission.

The Great River Road Network of Interpretive Centers share the stories of the Mississippi River. These centers reside along the 10-state stretch of the river and range from museums, parks, nature centers, aquariums, historic and prehistoric sites.

Benefits to Network members include: promotion and recognition through the National Mississippi River Parkway Commission. Interpretive Centers are attractions featured on printed Great River Road maps that are distributed internationally, as well as online at experiencemississippiriver.com, on social media platforms, included in itineraries, FAM trips, promotions and other related marketing.

To assist in utilizing the overall theme and the 11 major themes, examples of stories in each category were developed. Click here to download.