Minnesota History Center: The State’s Memory Palace in St. Paul
Between the State Capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul stands the Minnesota History Center — the state’s memory palace, home to the Minnesota Historical...
Category : Museums
Science Museum of Minnesota: Dinosaurs, Omnitheater and River Views
Perched on the St. Paul river bluff, the Science Museum of Minnesota is the Upper Midwest’s science heavyweight: 370,000 square feet where a Triceratops skeleton...
Bell Museum: Minnesota’s Natural Wonders Under One Starry Roof
Minnesota’s official natural history museum greets you with a woolly mammoth — and only gets better from there. The Bell Museum, on the University of...
The Bakken Museum: Where Science Gets a Jolt of Wonder
Earl Bakken co-founded Medtronic and invented the first wearable pacemaker — then built a museum to share his lifelong fascination with electricity and life. The...
Weisman Art Museum: Gehry’s Steel Jewel on the Mississippi
From the Washington Avenue Bridge it looks like a cubist waterfall frozen in stainless steel. The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, designed by Frank Gehry...
American Swedish Institute: A Castle of Nordic Culture in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion looks like a Swedish castle airlifted into a Minneapolis neighborhood — turrets, carved oak, hand-painted ceilings and a porcelain-tiled fireplace in nearly...
Mill City Museum: Ruins, Flour and the Rise of Minneapolis
The most dramatic museum in Minneapolis is a ruin. The Mill City Museum stands inside the fire-gutted shell of the Washburn A-Mill, once the largest...
Walker Art Center: The Twin Cities’ Contemporary Art Powerhouse
Perched above the Sculpture Garden in a crystalline tower by Herzog & de Meuron, the Walker Art Center is where Minneapolis goes to see art’s...
Minneapolis Institute of Art: 100,000 Years of Art, Free Every Day
Some museums charge you to see the world. The Minneapolis Institute of Art — Mia to its friends — opens the whole world for free,...
Paris Couture at Mia: 80+ Haute Couture Masterpieces from Paris Land in Minneapolis
Paris fashion has officially landed in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) presents “Paris Couture,” an exhibition of more than 80 haute couture masterpieces...
