Some museums charge you to see the world. The Minneapolis Institute of Art — Mia to its friends — opens the whole world for free, every day. More than 100,000 works fill its neoclassical home: Asian masterpieces that rank among America’s finest, European paintings from Rembrandt to Van Gogh, African and Native American galleries, and period rooms that walk you through centuries of domestic life.
Families get an Art Team backpack of activities, photographers get the soaring Target Atrium, and everyone gets the feeling that this museum belongs to them — because it does. Special exhibitions, from fashion to photography, keep even weekly visitors surprised.
Free admission, a park-like setting on the city’s south side, and 5,000 years of human creativity: Mia is Minneapolis’s grandest gift to itself.
