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...
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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...
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,...
