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Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives

The Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives houses the historical records of Northern Michigan University and historical materials documenting the history of the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

What We Do

• Collect and make accessible materials related to the history of Northern Michigan University and the central Upper Peninsula, including administrative and department records, faculty and student papers, student organization records, mining and logging records, local government records, civic organizations, political organizations, religious organizations, family records, oral history projects, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.

• Provide instructional support to courses at NMU, from brief "Intro to Archives" presentations to lengthy assignments in the archives. If you are interested in using the archives in one of your classes, please email us at archives@nmu.edu.

• Offer reference assistance to faculty, staff, students, external scholars, genealogists, and any curious member of the public.

• Manage UPLINK, a historical digital collections database for more than 30 heritage organizations across the UP.

• Hold events and programming related to the history and culture of the Upper Peninsula.

• We do NOT maintain current university records. University records only come to the archives if they are from more than 25 years ago and have long-term value. If you are a university department looking to store your temporary records or records less than 25 years old, please contact the Records Management department.
   

Starting May 18th, there will be construction on the floor where our collections are stored. We will not have access to an elevator, so pulling more than one box will take more time than usual. There may be times when we cannot access our collections at all. Walk-ins are still welcome, but we encourage you to contact us ahead of your visit so that we can already have your boxes pulled.

Search Our Collections

Learn how to search the finding aids for our physical collections and how to search our digital collections database, UPLINK.

Exhibits and Resources

Explore our exhibits, publications, and other research resources.

Support the Archives

If you want to increase access to UP history, you can donate to our NMU Foundation fund to help us fund arrangement, description, and digitization of our collections. If you are interested in funding the digitization of a specific collection, please contact us at archives@nmu.edu.