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Minnesota Arts and Culture
Minneapolis Institute of ArtsThe Minneapolis Institute of Arts' impressive collection spans more than 4,000 years and features art from all over the world. There's also a Family Center equipped with games, computers, and restrooms for some downtime from all the art and crowds in the galleries.The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is dedicated to national leadership in bringing arts and people together to discover, enjoy, and understand the world's diverse artistic heritage.
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is known for its major exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, for its presentation of vanguard music, dance, theater, film and video and for its innovative education programs and visionary new media initiatives. The Walker Art Center showcases contemporary paintings, photographs, and sculpture. Its Minneapolis Sculpture Garden presents scores of works, including Claes Oldenburg's whimsical "Spoonbridge and Cherry," a giant spoon balancing the ripe, red fruit. The Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Focusing on the visual, performing, and media arts of our time, the Walker takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation, presentation, interpretation, collection, and preservation of art. Walker programs examine the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities.
Admission is free every Thursday evening from 5 to 9 p.m. and the first Saturday of every month.
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Old Log Theater
The Old Log Theater, originally the home of a summer stock company that opened in 1940, is the area's oldest. Find more information about the Old Log TheaterChanhassen Dinner Theater
The Chanhassen Dinner Theater, just outside of Minneapolis, is a popular venue. It is the largest dinner theater in the country. The company first opened in 1968 with 90,000 square feet, and has grown ever since.In 1970, the company began a production of I Do I Do. Tewnty-two years later it became the longest running original cast production in the history of theater.
Children's Theater Company
The award-winning Children's Theater Company, in Minneapolis, stages plays targeted to preschoolers through teens.
Minnesota Children's Museum
The Minnesota Children's Museum is at the heart of where fun meets learning. It’s where kids can touch, climb, splash, crawl, push, pull, and press it all! Children ages 6 months through 10 years and their adult guests can explore six galleries packed with extraordinary hands-on adventures. Burrow through a giant anthill, take the stage in a TV and music studio, create a thunderstorm, operate a big crane, and more! Two changing galleries host new and delightful traveling exhibits throughout the year.
The Loft Literary Center
The Loft Literary Center was founded in 1974 in a loft above a Minneapolis bookstore. The Loft is now the nation's largest and most comprehensive literary center, offering programs and services for readers and writers.
The Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra was hailed by The New York Times as "an international orchestra of real accomplishment," the Minnesota Orchestra is an innovative and enterprising musical organization--considered one of America's great symphony orchestras. The Minnesota Orchestra makes its home at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis.
The U Film Society
The U Film Society has always been, and remains today, wholly independent of the University of Minnesota. The Film Society was founded in 1962 by its present-day Artistic Director, Albert Milgrom, who was a graduate student at the U when he started showing films on a white-painted concrete wall with 8mm and 16mm projectors. By the 1990s, U Film had fully equipped itself with full-monty 35mm equipment at 2 campus auditoriums. Although 1 of the 2 auditoriums was involuntarily lost to defective plaster in 1997, U Film still shows movies every night [360+ nights a year] on its screen at Bell Museum Auditorium.
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