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Spain at a Slower Pace: The Best of Barcelona and Madrid

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Spend eight nights in Madrid and Barcelona in 2025. Express your interest by March 7, 2025. Trip is October 23, 2025.

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Ceiling image of church in Spain

The Best of the Canadian Maritimes

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Embrace the colorful history of the Canadian Maritime provinces for 11 nights in 2025. Express your interest by February 1, 2025.  Trip date is September 6, 2025.

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Canada

Independent City Discoveries: Québec City

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Spend four nights in Québec City in 2025. Express your interest by October 2, 2024.  Trip date is June 16, 2025.

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Quebec City

June Photo Club

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May Photo Club

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Family history open discussion

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Family history open discussion.

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Discoveries Along the Douro: Portugal’s Best-Kept Secrets

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Spend 9 nights on the Douro River in Portugal in 2025. Enrollment has been extended.  Trip date is April 26, 2025.

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Portugal

Cabinets of Curiosity: Retrieving Minnesota Memories in the University Archives

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The University of Minnesota Archives, with its major holdings largely tucked away in two huge underground caverns along the Mississippi River under the West Bank campus, holds the essential records of our University of Minnesota’s past. University Archivist Erik Moore will explain the holdings and role of our extensive university archive and bring out a sampling of what it holds. At the end of our visit, he will conduct a tour of the literally cool caverns (Minnesota Library Access Center), revealing where these precious materials are housed, including the original tapes of KUOM, now Radio K.

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Uncovering the Treasures of the U of M Archives

April Photo Club

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March Photo Club

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Will Craig on using local family history sources

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Will Craig discusses using local sources for family history.

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Mexico City: History, Art, Culture and Politics

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Embrace and explore Mexico City as it showcases all facets of Mexico’s national character in 2025. Enrollment has been extended.  Trip date:  Feb 24, 2025.

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Mural in Mexico City.

Men's Hockey Vs. Ohio State

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Group of tickets is reserved for us.  Enjoy discounted tickets and attend with your fellow UMRA Members!  Time is to be determined.

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February Photo Club

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Cabinet of Curiosities: Herbarium Collection

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Cabinets of Curiosities will seek out the University of Minnesota Herbarium on the St Paul Campus.  Tim Whifeld, Collections Manager, will share his knowledge of that amazing collection and explain its critical importance in the twenty-first century. Botanists study these pressed plants, individually and collectively, to estsblish a history of plant life, often over centuries, because they contain compelling evidence of the ever modulating geographical distribution of plants and evidence of how climate, pests, and other factors have changed species over time. 

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Adenocaulon bicolor;  Asclepias syriaca