Minneapolis, MN
Best Art Museums (Attractions & Activities)
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum |
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333 E River Rd University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455 • 612-625-9494
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UNIVERSITY. This museum's on-campus building was designed by architect Frank Gehry to house the university's extensive art collection. A work of art in and of itself, the building is a series of irregular angles and stacked cubes covered in metal. The interior is restful and contemporary, an ideal setting for viewing visiting exhibitions and the university's collection of 20th-century American art. |
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
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2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis 55404 • 888-642-2787
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WHITTIER. This internationally renowned museum boasts a permanent collection of more than 80,000 items representing prehistoric to modern eras. Highlights include a 2000-year-old mummy and an exquisite collection of Chinese jade. The Institute also houses an excellent collection of Impressionist works. Period rooms feature original objects and furnishings from upper-class European homes and from America's early decades. Films, concerts, lectures, tours, and special events are offered throughout the year. |
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Minnesota Sculpture Garden |
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724 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis 55403 • 612-375-7693
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LORING PARK. Located next to Walker Art Center, this facility is the country's largest urban sculpture garden. More than 40 examples of modern, three-dimensional art are spread across 11 acres, and the best-known is arguably a 52-foot spoon holding a 9½-foot cherry titled "Spoonbridge and Cherry" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. |
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Museum of Russian Art |
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5500 Stevens Ave S, Minneapolis 55419 • 612-821-9045
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SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS. This unique, non-profit museum maintains continuous exhibits focusing on art created during the Soviet reign between 1922 and 1991. Many of these rare paintings are pulled from the private collection of the museum's founder, Raymond E. Johnson, who possesses what may be the most extensive privately-owned collection of Russian Realist paintings outside of Russia. In addition to Johnson's personal acquisitions, TMORA has also shown pieces on loan from Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery and from the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers. |
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Walker Art Center |
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1750 Hennepin, Minneapolis 55403 • 612-375-7600
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LORING PARK. What began in 1927 as a humble public gallery has become a world-renowned arts center that attracts well over a million visitors annually. With its Herzog and de Meuron design, the center is an ideal space in which to exhibit works by modern artists like Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Roy Lichtenstein, and Pablo Picasso. Interspersed among the galleries are cozy spots for pausing and reflecting or chatting with fellow visitors; the building also houses a restaurant and the McGuire Theater, which offers a complete schedule of film, drama, dance, and music. |
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