• Read about highlights of my visit to the Mia on my blog.
• Mia Special Exhibit: Art in Bloom 2022
• Mia Special Exhibit: Japanese Textiles 2022
• Mia Special Exhibit: Botticelli & Renaissance Florence 2022

Read about my visit to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on my blog 2021

Read about highlights of our Travel Date to the Mississippi River Front, Minneapolis, 2021

• Hennepin Island
• Nicollet Island
• St. Anthony Falls
• Stone Arch Bridge
• Guthrie Theater, Gold Medal Park and 35W Bridge Memorial

Read about our Travel Date to the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Minneapolis 2022. This nonprofit museum is the only major institution in North America devoted entirely to Russian art and culture from the entire scope of Russia’s history.

Read about my visit to the Purcell-Cutts Prairie-style House on my blog 2022

Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowery Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, just south of downtown.

• Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403; (walkerart.org)
• Check back for more details – coming soon

Bakken is a museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 1975 by Earl Bakken, the co-founder of Medtronic. Inspiring passion for innovation, the exhibits present a concise history and explanation of electricity and electromagnetism.

• 3537 Zenith Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416, USA (thebakken.org)
• Check back for more details – coming soon!

Mill City Museum showcases the milling industry of Minneapolis. Part of the Minnesota Historical Society, visitors get the opportunity to see 19th-century flour milling machines, view vintage advertising, sit at a huge dinner table outfitted to feed a wheat harvest crew, trace the journey of wheat from farm to market, design your own cereal box, and meet a history player from the city’s past. Blog coming soon!

• 704 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (mnhs.org/millcity/visit)
• Check back for more details – coming soon!

Read about my visit to the special exhibit of the Minnesota history Center on Sherlock Holmes, 2022.

Alexander Ramsey House is a historic Victorian house museum in Saint Paul, the former residence of Alexander Ramsey, who served as the first governor of Minnesota Territory and the second governor of the state of Minnesota. Part of the Minnesota Historical society, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Three generations of the Ramsey family came to occupy the handsome native limestone home.

• 265 Exchange Street South, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55012 (mnhs.org/ramseyhouse)
• Currently closed to the public, I plan to visit as soon as it reopens. Check back for details, coming soon!

• Check out our recent Travel Date to Historic Fort Snelling. 2022. It is a National Historic Landmark which resides on Dakota homeland, known as Bdote, with history spanning 10,000 years.

Bell Museum, Minnesota’s official natural history museum and planetarium, is now located on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Includes a Planetarium, wildlife dioramas, Touch & See Lab, and a walk through the state of Minnesota. The visitor can wander outside on our green roof and observation deck, and explore the learning landscape of native plants, geology gardens, and solar station. 

• 2088 Larpenteur Avenue West, St. Paul, MN; North of the U of MN, St. Paul Campus, near MN State Fairgrounds
• Easy access off of Hwy 280 between 35W and I94. (bellmuseum.umn.edu)
• Check back for details; coming soon!

Gibbs Farm is a seasonal historic site with tours & costumed interpreters recounting a day in the life of a MN pioneer. Site contains Dakota tipi, a replica bark lodge, and a wild rice camp. The Gibbs family historic farmhouse, barns, and a replica of their first sod house, a one-room schoolhouse, farm animals, a heritage apple orchard, historic gardens, and a restored prairie grace the site are also on site.

• Gibbs Farm is just north of the MN State Fairgrounds and the U of MN, St. Paul Campus.
• 2097 Larpenteur Avenue West, St. Paul, MN 55113 (rchs.com)
• Check back for more details – coming soon.

Science Museum of Minnesota, founded in 1907, is an American museum focused on topics in technology, natural history, physical science, and mathematics education. Dinosaurs, the Collectors’ Corner, Omnitheater, and more discoveries lie in store at the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul. Great family outing for a rainy–or very hot–day!

• Now open for visitors! Advance reservations required.
• 120 West Kellogg Boulevard, St. Paul, MN 55102 (new.smm.org)
• Check back for more details – coming soon.

Minnesota Transportation Museum is a transportation museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. MTM operates several heritage transportation sites in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin. The museum is actively involved in preserving local railroad, bus and streetcar history.

• The museum is currently open by reservation.
• 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN 55030 (transportationmuseum.org)
• Check back for details; coming soon!

Pavek Museum is a museum has one of the world’s most significant collections of vintage radio and television equipment. It originated in the collection of Joe Pavek, who began squirreling away unique radios while he was an instructor at Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, in 1946.

• 3517 Raleigh Avenue, St Louis Park, MN, 55416; pavekmuseum.org.
• Check back for more details -coming soon!

Read about our Travel Date to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on my blog 2021

Oliver Kelley Farm is a historic farmstead in Elk River, Minnesota. It was once owned by Oliver Hudson Kelley, one of the founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Part of the Minnesota Historical Society, the farmstead is a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which also places it on the National Register of Historic Places.

• 15788 Kelley Farm Road, Elk River, MN 55330. It is about 30 minutes north of Minneapolis/St. Paul with the entrance off of Hwy 169, just north of Anoka and south of Elk River. Access most easily by car. (mnhs.org/kelleyfarm)
• Currently closed for the season, check back for details as i plan to visit when it opens in the spring!