Museums in Minnesota

Home to one of the world’s largest nutcracker collections and other historical curiosities.

Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.

This museum is dedicated to preserving Minnesota's lake culture through displays of vintage watercraft and rotating exhibits.

The history of central Minnesota under one roof.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.