James J. Hill House: The Empire Builder’s St. Paul Mansion
Summit Avenue is America’s best-preserved Victorian boulevard, and its crown is the James J. Hill House — 36,000 square feet of Richardsonian Romanesque grandeur built...
Category : Museums
Historic Fort Snelling: Where Minnesota’s Story Begins
At the bluff where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers meet — Bdote, a place sacred to the Dakota for millennia — stands Fort Snelling, the...
Minnesota Transportation Museum: Climb Aboard History at the Roundhouse
The Jackson Street Roundhouse is one of the last working railroad roundhouses in America — and the Minnesota Transportation Museum makes it a playground of...
Twin City Model Railroad Museum: Miniature Minnesota, Running on Time
Since 1934, volunteers have been building the Twin Cities in miniature — and the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in St. Paul is their cathedral....
Schubert Club Music Museum: A World of Instruments in Landmark Center
Inside St. Paul’s storybook Landmark Center, the Schubert Club Music Museum holds a simple, radical belief: instruments are for playing. Its Keyboard Studio and global...
Minnesota Museum of American Art: The M, St. Paul’s Art Heart
One of America’s oldest art museums (founded 1894) has one of its freshest missions. The Minnesota Museum of American Art — everyone calls it The...
Goldstein Museum of Design: Where Everyday Things Become Art
Why is a chair beautiful? The Goldstein Museum of Design — the only design museum in the Upper Midwest — has spent 50 years answering...
Somali Museum of Minnesota: The Only One of Its Kind in the World
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in North America — and, remarkably, to the world’s only museum of Somali traditional art. The Somali...
Hennepin History Museum: Minneapolis’s Intimate Story Keeper
Across from Mia, in a gracious Washburn-Fair Oaks mansion, the Hennepin History Museum keeps Minneapolis’s story at human scale. Where big museums tell the state’s...
The Museum of Russian Art: A Jewel Box in South Minneapolis
In a beautifully converted former church in South Minneapolis stands a genuine American one-of-a-kind: The Museum of Russian Art, the only museum in North America...
