Runestone Museum (institutional record)

Runestone Museum, cited here as an institutional record, is the Alexandria, Minnesota museum's own account of its founding and its custody of the Kensington Runestone, a runic inscribed stone reported found in 1898 and claimed by some as evidence of medieval Scandinavian presence in North America. The museum is an independent nonprofit and its record reliably states what it holds and its own account of the stone's discovery. Its limit is exactly the dispute at the center of the stone's fame: mainstream runology treats the inscription as a nineteenth century creation, while the museum's own framing is considerably more sympathetic to authenticity. Cite it for what the museum holds and its own account; the authenticity question needs independent runological scholarship.