Established in 2004, The Minnesota Streetcar Museum is a nonprofit, educational corporation that works to preserve and communicate the experience of electric surface public transportation history in the upper Midwest. It acquires, restores, maintains, operates and exhibits various historic streetcars. The museum preserves a variety of artifacts, papers and photographs that are used to interpret Minnesota's electric railway history. The Minnesota Streetcar Museum maintains a collection of books and reference documents that is made available to community members through educational outreach and interpretative programs. It operates a store that sells a range of books, videos, posters, brochures, maps, badges, postcards, T-shirts, hats, pens, tokens, toys and jewelry items. The museum offers several membership options, as well as maintains various demonstration railways. In addition, it publishes Streetcar Currents, which is a monthly newsletter. The Minnesota Streetcar Museum is operated by Minnesota Transportation Museum, which was founded in 1962 and focuses on preserving buses, steamboats, streetcars, trains and several railroad-related buildings.