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This list of museums in Minnesota encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non-profit and university art galleries are also included. Virtual museums which exist only online are not included. ==Current museums== )〕 |- | Atwater Area Historical Society and Museum | | Atwater | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Local history | Vintage photographs and objects, plus a collection of military uniforms. |- | Augsburg Art Galleries | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Gage Family Art Gallery, Christensen Center Art Gallery, and Student Art Gallery at Augsburg College displaying work by contemporary artists as well as students, alumni, and faculty. |- | | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Science | World's only museum and research library devoted to the medical uses of electricity and magnetism, established by pioneering biomedical engineer Earl Bakken. Housed in a 1928 mansion. |- | Bartholomew House Museum | 100px | Richfield | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1852 house of early settler Riley Bartholomew. Operated by the Richfield Historical Society adjacent to the Richfield History Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.richfieldhistory.org/richfield-history-center/ )〕 |- | Baseball Hall of Fame Museum of Minnesota | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Sports | Currently closed. Baseball memorabilia collected by Ray Crump, a Minnesota Twins equipment manager; located in a baseball souvenir shop near the Twins' stadium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.domeplus.com/Museum/index.htm )〕 |- | Becker County Museum | | Detroit Lakes | Becker | Central Minnesota | Local history | Museum and research library of Becker County history, operated by the Becker County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mnhistoricnw.org/museums/county-museums/becker-county/ )〕 |- | Bell Museum of Natural History | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Natural history | Established in 1872 for research and display of the state's plants and animals. Operated by the University of Minnesota. |- | Beltrami County History Center | 100px | Bemidji | Beltrami | Northern Minnesota | Local history | Exhibits and archives of Beltrami County history. Operated by the Beltrami County Historical Society in a 1912 railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://beltramihistory.org/about/ )〕 |- | Benton County Historical Society and Museum | | Sauk Rapids | Benton | Central Minnesota | Local history | Exhibits and archives of Benton County history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mnbentonhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Bertha Museum | 100px | Bertha | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and memorabilia housed in a 1904 bank.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cityofbertha.com/history.html )〕 |- | Betsy-Tacy Houses | 100px | Mankato | Blue Earth | Minnesota River Valley | Biographical | Facing childhood homes of Maude Hart Lovelace and her best friend, fictionalized by the author in her ''Betsy-Tacy'' series. Operated by the Betsy-Tacy Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/houses )〕 |- | Big Honza's Museum of Unnatural History | 100px | Montgomery | Le Sueur | Minnesota River Valley | Amusement | Humorous museum of oversized items credited to a made-up local folk hero. |- | Big Stone County Museum | 100px | Ortonville | Big Stone | Western Minnesota | Local history | Displays of Big Stone County history, including historical buildings and an international gallery of 500 waterfowl specimens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bigstonemuseum.wordpress.com/ )〕 |- | Blue Earth County History Center and Museum | | Mankato | Blue Earth | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Exhibits on Blue Earth history, including Dakota heritage, Mankato's classic Front Street, and author Maud Hart Lovelace, operated by the Blue Earth County Historical Society. |- | Bois Forte Heritage Museum | | Tower | St. Louis | Iron Range | Native American | Heritage of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, including outdoor displays of a birchbark wigwam and a tipi. |- | Borgstrom House Museum | | Upsala | Morrison | Central Minnesota | Local history | Memorabilia of a Swedish American community—including a 1928 REO Speed Wagon firetruck—displayed in a 1913 house. Operated by the Upsala Area Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/uahs/ )〕 |- | Brown County Museum | 100px | New Ulm | Brown | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Exhibits on Brown County history, including local Century Farms, artist Wanda Gág, and the Dakota War of 1862. Operated by the Brown County Historical Society in an ornate 1910 post office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.browncountyhistorymn.org/ )〕 |- | Bunnell House | 100px | Homer | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | 1850s Carpenter Gothic house of an early settler, interpreting pioneer life; operated by the Winona County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://winonahistory2014.weebly.com/museums.html )〕 |- | Cahill School and Minnehaha Grange Hall | 100px | Edina | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Open-air | 1864 schoolhouse and 1879 Grange hall used as activity space by the Edina Historical Society. |- | Cannon Falls Historical Museum | 75px | Cannon Falls | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and research material, operated by the Cannon Falls Area Historical Society in an 1888 fire station〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cannonfallsmuseum.org/ )〕 |- | Carver County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Waconia | Carver | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Contains five galleries on Carver County history, a gallery on local veterans, and a research library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org/ )〕 |- | Cass County Museum | | Walker | Cass | Central Minnesota | Local history | Displays on Cass County history, including the fur trade, lumbering, transportation, and early pioneers, plus a large collection of Ojibwe artifacts and a 1912 schoolhouse; operated by the Cass County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.casscountymuseum.org/ )〕 |- | Carlton County History and Heritage Center | 100px | Cloquet | Carlton | Iron Range | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits on Carlton County history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.carltoncountyhistory.org/ )〕 Operated by the Carlton County Historical Society in a 1920 library. |- | Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site | 100px | Little Falls | Morrison | Central Minnesota | Biographical | Boyhood home of aviator Charles Lindbergh, with exhibits in an adjacent visitor center; operated by the Minnesota Historical Society within Charles A. Lindbergh State Park. |- | Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum | | Little Falls | Morrison | Central Minnesota | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits on Morrison County history, including Native American artifacts, local business and industry, and personal and household items; operated by the Morrison County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://morrisoncountyhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Charles H. Burwell House | 100px | Minnetonka | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1883 Victorian house of a prominent mill manager; operated by the Minnetonka Historical Society. |- | Chaska History Center | 100px | Chaska | Carver | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Exhibits and research collections on town history. Operated by the Chaska Historical Society in an 1890 livery stable.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chaskahistory.org/ )〕 |- | Children's Discovery Museum | | Grand Rapids | Itasca | Iron Range | Children's | Contains interactive educational exhibits and a large display of dolls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cdmkids.org/ )〕 Adjacent to the Judy Garland Museum. |- | Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota | | Mankato | Blue Earth | Minnesota River Valley | Children's | Contains interactive exhibits〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmsouthernmn.org/ )〕 |- | Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center | 100px | Grand Marais | Cook | Arrowhead | Local history | Interprets the natural and cultural history of the Gunflint Trail area. Operated by the Gunflint Trail Historical Society and Superior National Forest in a 1930s resort lodge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chikwauk.com/museum.php )〕 |- | Christie House Museum | 100px | Long Prairie | Todd | Central Minnesota | Historic house | 1901 Queen Anne house of an influential local family, with original furnishings and memorabilia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.christiehome.org/ )〕 |- | Clarissa Museum | | Clarissa | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Museum of town's early history.〔 |- | Clearwater County History Center | | Shevlin | Clearwater | Northern Minnesota | Local history | Rotating exhibits and research collections on Clearwater County history; operated by the Clearwater County Historical Society in a 1911 school with additional historical buildings on the grounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mnhistoricnw.org/museums/county-museums/clearwater-county/ )〕 |- | Clinton Depot | 100px | Clinton | Big Stone | Western Minnesota | Local history | Local memorabilia including war mementos, agricultural equipment, and railroad artifacts housed in an 1885 railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.angelfire.com/clintondepot/index.html )〕 |- | Cokato Museum & Gust Akerlund Studio | 100px | Cokato | Wright | West Central Minnesota | Local history | Local history museum and the Upper Midwest's only surviving early-20th-century photography studio, with much of its original equipment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cokato.mn.us/?page_id=120/ )〕 |- | Comstock House | 100px | Moorhead | Clay | Red River Valley | Historic house | 1883 Victorian house of an influential family, including politician and businessman Solomon Comstock and his daughter, pioneering female educator Ada Comstock. Operated by the city of Moorhead and the Minnesota Historical Society. |- | Cook County Historical Museum | 100px | Grand Marais | Cook | Arrowhead | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits on Cook County history, operated by the Cook County Historical Society in the Grand Marais Light keeper's house.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cookcountyhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Cottonwood County Historical Museum | 100px | Windom | Cottonwood | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | Displays on Cottonwood County history from precontact Native Americans to the early 20th century, plus an art gallery and research library; operated by the Cottonwood County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.museumsofmn.com/cottonwood-county-historical-society.html )〕 |- | Croft Mine Historical Park | 100px | Crosby | Crow Wing | Iron Range | Mining | Interprets an underground iron mine on the Cuyuna Range active 1916–1934, with original equipment and structures, vintage photographs, and guided tours of a simulated mine.〔 |- | Cross River Heritage Center | 100px | Schroeder | Cook | Arrowhead | Local history | Exhibits and period rooms relating to settlement around the Cross River, plus a research archive. Operated by the Schroeder Area Historical Society in a 1929 Tudor Revival inn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crossriverheritage.org/ )〕 |- | Crosslake Area Historical Society Museum | | Crosslake | Crow Wing | Central Minnesota | Open-air | Collection of historical and replica log buildings, including several homesteader cabins, a saloon, a tourist cabin, and a 1923 town hall with local artifacts displayed inside.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crosslakehistoricalsociety.org/historiclogvillage.htm )〕 |- | Crow Wing County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Brainerd | Crow Wing | Central Minnesota | Local history | Exhibits of Crow Wing County history, including logging, railroads, mining, and early home life, housed in a 1917 sheriff's residence/county jail.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crowwinghistory.org/museum_exhibits.html )〕 |- | Cycling Museum of Minnesota | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Transportation | Museum in development on the history, impact, and future promise of cycling. Projected to open in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmm.bike/ )〕 |- | Dakota City Heritage Village | | Farmington | Dakota | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Open-air | 22 historical and replica buildings depicting a typical Dakota County village of the year 1900, plus a museum of agriculture and pioneer life; operated by a non-profit organization on the Dakota County Fairgrounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dakotacity.org/ )〕 |- | Dassel History Center & Ergot Museum | 100px | Dassel | Meeker | West Central Minnesota | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits on local contributions to agriculture and medicine—including the transformation of ergot from plague to drug—and farmer-turned-politician Magnus Johnson. Operated by the Dassel Area Historical Society in a 1937 agricultural laboratory. |- | Denler Art Gallery | | Roseville | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Gallery at the University of Northwestern – St. Paul displaying work by national, local, and student artists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://art-design.unwsp.edu/denler-gallery/ )〕 |- | Dinehart-Holt House | 100px | Slayton | Murray | Southwest Minnesota | Historic house | 1891 Victorian house of early leading citizens of Slayton. Managed by the Murray County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.murraycountyhistoricalsociety.org/www/index.php/the-dinehart-holt-house )〕 |- | Dodge County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Mantorville | Dodge | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts displayed in an 1869 church, with two adjacent historical structures.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dodgecountyhistorical.org/ )〕 |- | Dorothy Molter Museum | 100px | Ely | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Biographical | Museum and historic cabins dedicated to longtime wilderness resident Dorothy Molter and the heritage of the Boundary Waters. |- | Dr. William W. Mayo House | 100px | Le Sueur | Le Sueur | Minnesota River Valley | Historic house | 1859 house owned successively by Mayo Clinic founder William Worrall Mayo and three generations of the Cosgrove family who founded Green Giant. Managed by the Nicollet County Historical Society. |- | Duluth Art Institute | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Art | Visual arts organization dating to 1871, offering rotating exhibitions by regional artists as well as workshops at the Duluth Depot and Lincoln Branch Library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.duluthartinstitute.org/about/history )〕 |- | Duluth Children's Museum | | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Children's | Nation's fifth-oldest children's museum, established in 1930. |- | Duluth Depot | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Multiple | 1892 railway station housing the Duluth Art Institute, Lake Superior Railroad Museum, St. Louis County Historical Society Museum, and several performing arts organizations. |- | Eagle Bend Museum and Library | 100px | Eagle Bend | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and memorabilia, in a building shared with the Eagle Bend Public Library.〔 |- | East Polk Heritage Center | | Fosston | Polk | Red River Valley | Local history | Local artifacts displayed in an 1887 house and a replica log cabin, plus a restored schoolhouse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mnhistoricnw.org/museums/local-history-museums/east-polk/ )〕 |- | Edna G. Tugboat | 100px | Two Harbors | Lake | Arrowhead | Maritime | Great Lakes tugboat in service 1896–1981. Operated by the Lake County Historical Society. |- | Edina History Museum | | Edina | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits of town history, plus a research library. Operated by the Edina Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.edinahistoricalsociety.org/museum.html )〕 |- | Ed's Museum | 100px | Wykoff | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Americana | Former grocery store displaying the belongings of local character and lifelong hoarder Ed Krueger, including toys, packaging, magazines, player piano rolls, and a dead cat, all willed to the city and organized by the Wykoff Progressive Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.museumsofmn.com/ed-s-museum.html )〕 |- | Eidem Homestead | | Brooklyn Park | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Living history | Turn-of-the-20th-century living history farm with a Victorian farmhouse, barn, and live animals. Managed by the city of Brooklyn Park. |- | Ely Art & Heritage Center | 100px | Ely | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Multiple | Art exhibits and historical displays, operated by Ely Greenstone Public Art within a former mining complex. |- | Ely–Winton History Museum | | Ely | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Local history | Displays on local history, including the Ojibwe, voyageurs, logging, mining, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Housed on the campus of Vermilion Community College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ely-Winton-Historical-Society/291461494332967 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2795/ely-winton-history-museum/ )〕 |- | End O' Line Railroad Park & Museum | 100px | Currie | Murray | Southwest Minnesota | Open-air | Railroad and frontier life, with vintage locomotives and rolling stock, an original railway turntable, historical buildings, and a model train layout. Operated by Murray County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.endoline.com/ )〕 |- | Etta C. Ross Memorial Library Museum | 100px | Blue Earth | Faribault | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Local records and artifacts housed in a 1904 library. Operated by the Faribault County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fchistorical.org/index.php/buildings/etta-c-ross-memorial-library-museum )〕 |- | Eugene Saint Julien Cox House | 100px | St. Peter | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Historic house | Restored 1871 Italianate house of a founder and early leader of St. Peter. Operated by the Nicollet County Historical Society. |- | Evansville Historical Foundation | | Evansville | Douglas | Vikingland | Open-air | Historical and replica buildings, including two 19th-century houses, a country schoolhouse, 1892 log cabin, a sod house, pioneer church, and a town hall, with some indoor exhibits and a research library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://evansvillemn.net/ )〕 |- | Excelsior–Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Museum | | Excelsior | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | History of the south Lake Minnetonka area, including the 1893 racing scow ''Onawa'' and exhibits on the Excelsior Amusement Park in operation 1925–1974. Housed in a former railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.elmhs.org/museum.htm )〕 |- | Fagen Fighters WWII Museum | | Granite Falls | Yellow Medicine | Minnesota River Valley | Military | Celebrates the veterans of World War II with a collection of fully operational military aircraft and vehicles, plus murals, statues, and other art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fagenfighterswwiimuseum.org/ )〕 |- | Farmamerica | | Waseca | Waseca | Southern Minnesota | Agriculture | Minnesota's agricultural heritage, featuring an 1850s farm, 1930s farm, visitor center, antique tractors and machinery, and several historical buildings. Also known as the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center. |- | Fillebrown House | 100px | White Bear Lake | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1879 lakeside cottage, operated by the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whitebearhistory.org/index.php/museums )〕 |- | Fillmore County History Center Museum | 100px | Fountain | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Artifacts from Fillmore County history, including agricultural equipment, women's and children's clothing, period displays, two Bernard Pietenpol airplanes, and a one-room schoolhouse. Operated by the Fillmore County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://fillmorecountyhistory.wordpress.com/museum/ )〕 |- | Finland Minnesota Heritage Site | 100px | Finland | Lake | Arrowhead | Open-air | Exhibits and historical structures interpreting the pioneer heritage of eastern Lake County. Operated by the Finland Minnesota Historical Society on an 1890s homestead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.finlandmnhistoricalsociety.com/ )〕 |- | Finn Creek Open Air Museum | | New York Mills | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Open-air | Local Finnish American heritage represented by original and relocated structures on a 1900 farmstead, including a smoke sauna, sawmill, and town hall. |- | Firefighters Hall & Museum | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Firefighting | Historical vehicles, equipment, displays, and a research library on firefighting in Minnesota.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://firehallmuseum.org/ )〕 |- | Fishing Hall of Fame of Minnesota | | Baxter | Crow Wing | Central Minnesota | Sports | Photos and memorabilia commemorating individuals and corporations significant in the development of recreational fishing in Minnesota. Operated by a non-profit organization within a Gander Mountain store. |- | Fitger's Brewery Museum | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Food | Memorabilia of Minnesota's most successful brewery, in operation 1881–1972. Housed within the historic brewery complex, which is now a mall. |- | Folsom House | 100px | Taylors Falls | Chisago | East Central Minnesota | Historic house | 1855 house of lumber magnate W.H.C. Folsom, with many of its original furnishings. Operated by the Taylors Falls Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/folsom-house )〕 |- | Forest History Center | 100px | Grand Rapids | Itasca | Iron Range | Industry | Human history of Minnesota's forests, interpreted via a visitor center, early-20th-century logging camp, 1930s U.S. Forest Service station, nature trails, and environmental programs. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/forest-history-center )〕 |- | Fort Belmont | | Jackson | Jackson | Southwest Minnesota | Military | Recreated 1860s pioneer fort, plus other historic and replica structures including a sod house, blacksmith shop, farmhouse, and 1902 church. Indoor exhibits feature historical vehicles, early music boxes, and dolls. |- | Fort Ridgely | 100px | Fairfax | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Military | Indoor exhibits in a reconstructed building and foundation ruins of a frontier U.S. Army fort in service 1853–1867, site of the Battle of Fort Ridgely in 1862. Operated by the Nicollet County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/fort-ridgely )〕 |- | Freeborn County Historical Museum | | Albert Lea | Freeborn | Southern Minnesota | Local history | History of Freeborn County, with period displays and a 19th-century pioneer village. |- | Fridley History Center | | Fridley | Anoka | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Artifacts and displays of town history. Operated by the Fridley Historical Society in a 1931 schoolhouse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fridleyhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Gallery of Wood Art | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Exhibits a variety of contemporary art made from wood, plus educational displays and vintage lathes. Operated by the American Association of Woodturners in Landmark Center. |- | Gammelgården Museum | 100px | Scandia | Washington | East Central Minnesota | Ethnic | Interprets Swedish immigration to Minnesota, particularly in the years 1850–1880, through historical buildings and artifacts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gammelgardenmuseum.org )〕 |- | Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life | 70px | Falcon Heights | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Open-air | 1849 farmstead with original, relocated, and replica buildings, plus replica Dakota dwellings and gardens; operated by the Ramsey County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rchs.com/gbbsfm2.htm )〕 |- | Gideon H. Pond House | 100px | Bloomington | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1856 house with replica 1852 wing, owned by Gideon Hollister Pond, early missionary to the Dakota. Operated by the city of Bloomington in Pond–Dakota Mission Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/GideonAgnesPondHouse )〕 |- | Gilfillan Estate | 100px | Morgan | Redwood | Minnesota River Valley | Agricultural, historic house | Large 1882 farm with an ornate farmhouse, outbuildings, and antique machinery. Operated by the Redwood County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://redwoodcountyhistoricalsociety.com/gilfillan-estate/ )〕 |- | Glensheen Historic Estate | 100 px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Historic house | 39-room mansion built 1905–08 for entrepreneur Chester Congdon, with much of its original contents and furnishings. Operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth. |- | Goldstein Museum of Design | 100px | Falcon Heights | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Research collection and rotating exhibit space dedicated to applied arts such as clothing, pottery, and graphic design. Operated by the University of Minnesota's College of Design. |- | Goodhue County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Red Wing | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Permanent and temporary exhibits on Goodhue County history, including Native Americans, natural history, daily life, and special events. Operated by Minnesota's oldest county historical society, established in 1869.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://goodhuecountyhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Gordon Parks Gallery | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Teaching gallery at Metropolitan State University featuring works by Gordon Parks and diverse rotating exhibits.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.metrostate.edu/msweb/explore/cas/departments/cwa/gallery/ )〕 |- | Grand Portage National Monument | 100px | Grand Portage | Cook | Arrowhead | History | Reconstructed North West Company trading post and modern visitor center interpreting Ojibwe heritage and the North American fur trade. Operated by the National Park Service. |- | Grant County Museum and Veterans' Memorial Hall | | Elbow Lake | Grant | Western Minnesota | Local history | Displays of Grant County history, including paleontology, Native American and pioneer artifacts, and military memorabilia, plus a restored log cabin and one-room school. Operated by the Grant County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/3088/grant-county-historical-museum-and-veterans-memorial-hall/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grant-County-Historical-Society-Museum/146908008710867 )〕 |- | Great Lakes Aquarium | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Aquarium | Aquarium displaying freshwater species from the Great Lakes region and the Amazon River, including birds and otters, plus exhibits on physical sciences. |- | Greyhound Bus Museum | 100px | Hibbing | St. Louis | Iron Range | Transportation | Origins of Greyhound Lines, a local enterprise that grew into the world's largest bus company. Features 17 vintage buses including the founders' original 1914 Hupmobile. |- | Grimm Farm Historic Site | 100px | Laketown Township | Carver | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Agricultural | 1859 farm of Wendelin Grimm, who developed the first winter-hardy alfalfa in North America, enabling widespread dairy farming in the Upper Midwest. Operated by Three Rivers Park District within Carver Park Reserve. |- | Gustaf Anderson House History Museum | 100px | Lindstrom | Chisago | East Central Minnesota | Historic house | 1890 house of a prosperous immigrant family, with period furnishings. Operated by the Chisago County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chisagocountyhistory.org/07d-ManagedSitesGustafHouse.html )〕 |- | Harkin Store | 100px | West Newton | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | History | 1870s general store with much of its original merchandise on display. Operated by the Nicollet County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nchsmn.org/sites.html )〕 |- | Hay Lake School and Erickson Log Home | 100px | Scandia | Washington | East Central Minnesota | Historic house, school | 1868 homesteaders' cabin and 1896 school. Operated by the Washington County Historical Society. |- | Headwaters Science Center | | Bemidji | Beltrami | Northern Minnesota | Science | Science and technology exhibits with an emphasis on hands-on activities for all ages. |- | Hennepin History Museum | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits on Hennepin County history. Operated by the Hennepin County Historical Society in a 1919 mansion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hennepinhistory.org/ )〕 |- | Heritage Museum and Wind Power Learning Center | | Lake Benton | Lincoln | Southwest Minnesota | Industry, local history | Exhibits on local history and wind power, a major resource in the Buffalo Ridge area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lakebentonminnesota.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=&DE= )〕 |- | Heritage Village | | East Grand Forks | Polk | Red River Valley | Open-air | Historical and replica buildings, with tours and living history demonstrations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.egfheritage.com/ )〕 |- | Hewitt Museum | 100px | Hewitt | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and memorabilia housed in a 1911 school building. Operated by the Hewitt Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hewitthistoricalsociety.weebly.com/ )〕 |- | Hibbing Historical Museum | | Hibbing | St. Louis | Iron Range | Local history | Permanent and rotating exhibits of city history, including scale models of Hibbing in 1893 and 1913, a fully furnished replica house, and logging and mining displays.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hibbinghistory.com/ )〕 |- | Highpoint Center for Printmaking | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Two galleries with rotating exhibits of local, national, and international printmaking. |- | Hill-Annex Mine State Park | 100px | Marble | Itasca | Iron Range | Mining | Tours of an open-pit iron mine active 1913–1978, with exhibits and period rooms in a former clubhouse building. Operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. |- | Hillstrom Museum of Art | | St. Peter | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Art | Permanent and rotating displays of international, national, regional, student, and faculty art. Part of Gustavus Adolphus College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://gustavus.edu/finearts/hillstrom/ )〕 |- | Hinckley Fire Museum | 100px | Hinckley | Pine | East Central Minnesota | Local history | Interprets the devastating Great Hinckley Fire of 1894 and the subsequent rebuilding of the town and conversion from lumber to agriculture. Housed in an 1895 railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.seans.com/sunsetweb/hinckley/history/ )〕 |- | Historic Chippewa City | | Montevideo | Chippewa | Minnesota River Valley | Open-air | Replica of a late-19th-century village with 24 buildings, including log cabins, a church, shops, and a one-room schoolhouse. Operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chippewacohistory.org/home.html )〕 |- | Historic Forestville | 100px | Preston | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Living history | Living history demonstrations themed to 1899 in and around an original general store, attached residence, farm buildings, gardens, and bridge. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society within Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/historic-forestville )〕 |- | Historic Fort Snelling | 75px | Fort Snelling | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Military | Restored frontier Army fort constructed at a key river junction in the 1820s, and associated with Native American history, the fur trade, Dred Scott, the Dakota War of 1862, and the World Wars. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/ )〕 |- | History Center of Olmsted County | 100px | Rochester | Olmsted | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Permanent and temporary exhibits on local history like the Mayo Clinic, plus grounds with historic and replica buildings, including the George Stoppel Farmstead, an 1860s cabin and baseball diamond, and an 1880s school. |- | History Museum of East Otter Tail County | | Perham | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Local history | Displays on local domestic, economic, and social life, including Native American artifacts, the Otter Tail River, area towns, quilting, and the early tourist trade. Housed in an 1887 stone church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historymuseumeot.com/ )〕 |- | Hjemkomst Center | 100px | Moorhead | Clay | Red River Valley | Local history | Exhibits on Clay County history, plus full-size replicas of Norway's Hopperstad Stave Church and the Gokstad ship. Operated by the Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County. |- | Holz Farm | 100px | Eagan | Dakota | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Agricultural, living history | Family farm interpreting rural life from the Great Depression to World War II. Operated by the city of Eagan. |- | Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House | 100px | Belle Plaine | Scott | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1871 house furnished to depict three periods of Belle Plaine history—1850s–60s, Victorian Era, and early 20th century—while local memorabilia is on display in the carriage house. Operated by the Belle Plaine Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.belleplainemn.com/hooper-bowler-hillstrom-house )〕 |- | Hopkins Historical Society Museum | | Hopkins | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Local memorabilia and archival material on such topics as the Minneapolis-Moline tractor company, Czech American history, homes and businesses, and Hopkins' long-running Raspberry Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hopkinsmnhistoricalsociety.org/ )〕 |- | Houston County Historical Society Museum | | Caledonia | Houston | Southeast Minnesota | Local history, open-air | Local history collections including farm equipment and photographs, plus historic buildings on the grounds including an 1862 church, 1878 one-room schoolhouse, and 1880 log cabin. |- | Hubbard County Historical Museum | 100px | Park Rapids | Hubbard | Central Minnesota | Local history | Period rooms—such as a Victorian parlor and one-room schoolhouse—and exhibits of local artifacts like vintage clothing, military memorabilia, and communication equipment displayed in a 1900 county courthouse. |- | Independence Town Hall Museum | | Independence | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Pioneer-era artifacts housed in a former town hall. Operated by the Western Hennepin County Pioneer Association. |- | International Wolf Center | 100px | Ely | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Natural history | Education and research facility dedicated to wolves, with exhibits, programs, and a habitat with live wolves. |- | Iron Range Historical Society Research Museum | 100px | Gilbert | St. Louis | Iron Range | Local history | Archive of local history materials, including photographs and law enforcement accessories. Housed in the former police station of a 1915 municipal hall. |- | Isanti County Historical Society Heritage Center | | Cambridge | Isanti | East Central Minnesota | Local history | Local history collections and archives, adjacent to an 1872 log cabin and other historical buildings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ichs.ws/heritage-center.html )〕 |- | Itasca Heritage Center | | Grand Rapids | Itasca | Iron Range | Local history | Operated by the Itasca County Historical Society, includes exhibits about the woolly mammoth, Judy Garland and the Gumm family, paper industry, Native Americans, pioneers〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.itascahistorical.org/ )〕 |- | In Their Own Words | | Perham | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Military | (website ), interactive exhibits and oral histories of soldiers, prisoners of war and the effects of war on communities |- | Jackson County Historical Museum | | Lakefield | Jackson | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | Operated by the Jackson County Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jacksonmn.com/pages/OurHistory1/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/JCHSToday )〕 |- | James J. Hill House | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | Gilded Age mansion of railroad magnate James J. Hill, completed in 1891. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/james-j-hill-house )〕 |- | Jeffers Petroglyphs | 100px | Comfrey | Cottonwood | Southwest Minnesota | Native American | Rock outcrop bearing some 4,000 Native American petroglyphs carved in a period spanning 7,000 to 250 years ago, plus a visitor center with exhibits. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/jeffers-petroglyphs )〕 |- | John H. Stevens House | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1849 house of Minneapolis pioneer John H. Stevens, site of much early civic activity. Hauled to its current location in Minnehaha Park in 1896 by teams of schoolchildren.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.johnhstevenshouse.org/index.html )〕 |- | Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery | | Grand Marais | Cook | Arrowhead | Art | Gallery featuring the art of settler Anna Johnson (1881–1944), plus rotating exhibits of local, regional, and national artists. Operated by the Cook County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.johnsonheritagepost.org/ )〕 |- | Joseph R. Brown Minnesota River Center | 100px | Henderson | Sibley | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Displays include a replica tipi and 1850s land office, and a topographical map of the Minnesota River, plus exhibits on town founder Joseph R. Brown and riverboats. Housed in an 1879 courthouse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.joebrownrivercenter.org/minnesota-river-center.html )〕 |- | J.R. Watkins House | 100px | Plainview | Wabasha | Southeast Minnesota | Historic house | Home from 1868 to 1885 of J.W. Watkins, founder of what is now Watkins Incorporated. Displays include period furnishings and Watkins' early products.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.plainviewareahistorycenter.org/#!watkinshouse/c19ix )〕 |- | Judy Garland Museum | 100px | Grand Rapids | Itasca | Iron Range | Biographical | Childhood home of actress and singer Judy Garland, displaying memorabilia from her life and the film ''The Wizard of Oz''. |- | Julian H. Sleeper House | | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Gilded Age decorative arts displayed in an 1884 home, exhibited by the owner by appointment. Collection was formerly the basis of the Gowie-Nonnand House Museum in New Haven, Connecticut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://julianhsleeperhouse.com/ )〕 |- | Kanabec History Center | | Mora | Kanabec | East Central Minnesota | Local history | Indoor and outdoor displays, including an Ojibwe wigwam, 1906 kitchen, telecommunications gear, several historic schoolhouses, a replica 1904 fire hall, and a 1950s caboose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kanabechistory.weebly.com/ )〕 |- | Kandiyohi County Museum | | Willmar | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Local history | Local history displays in a former railway station, plus an 1880 schoolhouse, 1893 farmhouse, and a 1923 steam locomotive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kandiyohicountyhistory.com/museum%20and%20depot.html )〕 |- | Karl Oskar House | 100px | Lindstrom | Chisago | East Central Minnesota | Ethnic | Swedish pioneer home that was the inspiration for author Vilhelm Moberg's ''The Emigrants'' series. Operated by the Lindstrom Historical Society in Ki-Chi-Saga Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chisagocountyhistory.org/13-HistoryPartners.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbm2jnHBqJY )〕 |- | Karpeles Manuscript Library Duluth Museum | | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | History | Rotating exhibits in a 1912 church, one of 14 national locations of the world's largest private collection of notable manuscripts and documents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/dul.html )〕 |- | Katherine E. Nash Gallery | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | gallery devoted to exhibiting visual arts by local, regional, national, and international artists. Operated by the University of Minnesota Department of Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://art.umn.edu/nash/about )〕 |- | Kensington Historical Museum | | Kensington | Douglas | Vikingland | Local history | Displays and research material on local history, including the discovery of the Kensington Runestone and purported Viking exploration of North America. Operated by the Kensington Area Heritage Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kahsoc.org/ )〕 |- | Kittson County History Center and Museum | | Lake Bronson | Kittson | Red River Valley | Local history | Displays of pioneer artifacts, machinery, and antique vehicles, plus historic structures including a log cabin, schoolhouse, church, and caboose. Operated by the Kittson County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mnhistoricnw.org/museums/county-museums/kittson-county/ )〕 |- | Knute Nelson House | 100px | Alexandria | Douglas | Vikingland | Historic house | Operated by the Douglas County Historical Society, restored turn-of-the-20th-century home of U.S. Senator Knute Nelson〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dchsmn.org )〕 |- | Koochiching Historical Museums | | International Falls | Koochiching | Northern Minnesota | Local history | Includes Koochiching Historical Museum with local history exhibits, and attached Bronko Nagurski Museum about 1930s-1940s football player Bronko Nagurski, located in Smokey Bear Park〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.traveltheheart.org/content/koochiching-county-and-bronko-nagurski-museum/hoc0CC1230B866A1280F )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2741/koochiching-historical--bronco-nagurski-museums )〕 |- | Kremer House Library and Museum | | Minnesota Lake | Faribault | Southern Minnesota | Local history |〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://minnesotalake.com/113-2/ )〕 |- | Lac qui Parle History Center | | Madison | Lac qui Parle | Western Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), complex includes Lac qui Parle County Museum, 1870s log cabin, 1887 rural schoolhouse, agriculture equipment and early transportation, study of poet Robert Bly, operated by the Lac qui Parle Historical Society |- | Lac qui Parle Mission | 100px | Montevideo | Chippewa | Minnesota River Valley | History | Reconstructed 1835 mission where the first Dakota language dictionary and Bible were compiled. Operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/lac-qui-parle-mission )〕 |- | Lake County Historical Depot Museum | 100px | Two Harbors | Lake | Arrowhead | Local history | |- | Lake of the Woods County Museum | | Baudette | Lake of the Woods | Northern Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Lake of the Woods County Historical Society, includes representative homestead, general store, country school, newspaper office and blacksmith shop exhibits, agriculture equipment, natural history and geology, pioneer and Native American settlements, local industries and communities |- | Lake Superior Railroad Museum | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Railroad | Part of the Duluth Depot, features many locomotives and over 40 pieces of rolling stock |- | Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center | | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Maritime | History and operations of upper lakes commercial shipping and the Aerial Lift Bridge; part of Canal Park |- | The Landing – Minnesota River Heritage Park | | Shakopee | Scott | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Living history | Part of Three Rivers Park District, formerly Historic Murphy's Landing, depicts life in the Lower Minnesota River Valley from the 1840s – 1890s |- | Landmark Center | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Multiple | Historic building that features a gallery about the center, the Landmark Center Archive Gallery with local history exhibits, AAW Gallery of Wood Art, Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments, Ramsey County Historical Society Gallery |- | Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum | 100px | Walnut Grove | Redwood | Southwest Minnesota | Biographical | (website ), history of the family of author Laura Ingalls Wilder in Walnut Grove, includes a depot, chapel, onion-domed house, dugout display, schoolhouse, early settler home, and covered wagon display |- | Lawshe Memorial Museum | | South Saint Paul | Dakota | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | Operated by the Dakota County Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dakotahistory.org/visit-us/ )〕 |- | LeDuc Historic Estate | 100px | Hastings | Dakota | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | Operated by the Dakota County Historical Society, Victorian period mansion〔 |- | Le Sueur Museum | | Le Sueur | Le Sueur | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Includes history of the Green Giant Company, radio room, early schools and hotels, post office, agriculture, art, military and bands in Le Sueur〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://lesueurchamber.org/about-le-sueur/area-attractions/ )〕 |- | Lincoln County Pioneer Museum | | Hendricks | Lincoln | Southwest Minnesota | Open-air | Six buildings that represent a pioneer town from the late 1800s and early 1900s〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hendricksmn.com/HendricksServices.asp?CID=Non-Profit%20Organizations&ID=77 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/LincolnCountyPioneerMuseum )〕 |- | Lower Sioux Agency Interpretive Center | 100px | Sherman Township | Redwood | Minnesota River Valley | Native American | History center and open-air museum on Dakota life before, during, and after the Dakota War of 1862. Co-managed by the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation and the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/lower-sioux-agency )〕 |- | Lund-Hoel House | 100px | Canby | Yellow Medicine | Southwest Minnesota | Historic house | (website ), turn-of-the-century Victorian period house |- | Lyle's Logging Camp and Museum | | Cass Lake | Cass | Central Minnesota | Industry, local history | Reconstructed early-20th-century logging camp and adjacent museum housed in a former railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ci.casslake.mn.us/City_of_Cass_Lake/Cass_Lake_Museum_Lyles_Logging_Camp.html )〕 |- | Lyon County Museum | | Marshall | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | (website ) |- | Mantorville Restoration House | | Mantorville | Dodge | Southeast Minnesota | Historic house | (website ), 1856 former county office building and jail, also adjacent 1850s log cabin and carriage house |- | Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | | Marshall | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Art | (website ), changing exhibits |- | Martin County Historical Society Pioneer Museum | | Fairmont | Martin | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | (website ), period displays |- | McIntosh Heritage & Arts Center | | McIntosh | Polk | Red River Valley | Local history |〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mnhistoricnw.org/museums/local-history-museums/mcintosh/ )〕 |- | McLeod County Historical Society | | Hutchinson | McLeod | West Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), history of the communities in McLeod County, also paintings of wildlife artist Les Kouba |- | Meeker County Historical Museum | 100px | Litchfield | Meeker | West Central Minnesota | Local history | |- | Melrose Area Museum | | Melrose | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Melrose Historical Society, exhibits include military, business memorabilia, clothing, kitchen and household items, furniture, religious items, local sports and photographs |- | Mill City Museum | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Industry | Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society, history of the flour milling industry in Minneapolis |- | Mille Lacs County Historical Society Depot Museum | 100px | Princeton | Mille Lacs | East Central Minnesota | Railroad | |- | Mille Lacs Indian Museum | | Onamia | Mille Lacs | East Central Minnesota | Native American | Culture of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, operated by the Minnesota Historical Society |- | Millersburg Schoolhouse Museum | | Millersburg | Rice | Southeast Minnesota | Education | (website ), founded and supported by the Christdala Preservation Association |- | Milwaukee Road Heritage Center | 100px | Montevideo | Chippewa | Minnesota River Valley | Railroad | History of the Milwaukee Road in the area |- | Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Contemporary art and design exhibitions |- | Minneapolis Institute of Arts | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Features an encyclopedic collection of approximately 100,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of world history. Its collection includes paintings, photographs, prints and drawings, textiles, architecture, and decorative arts. There are collections of African art and art from Oceania and the Americas, and an especially strong collection of Asian art, called "one of the finest and most comprehensive Asian art collections in the country". The Asian collection includes Chinese architecture, jades,〔Among these is a 1784 piece believed to be the largest historic jade sculpture outside of China. 〕 bronzes, and ceramics.〔 |- | Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Features 40 modern and contemporary sculptures and installations in an park located adjacent to the Walker Art Center. The garden is a collaboration between the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the Walker Art Center. |- | Minnehaha Depot | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | Part of the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 1875 depot on the Milwaukee Road line with railroad exhibits |- | Minnesota Air National Guard Museum | | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Military | (website ), aircraft and memorabilia, open on event days |- | Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame Museum | 100px | St. Cloud | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Sports | Memorabilia from Minnesota's numerous minor league, town, school, and club baseball teams. Housed in the River's Edge Convention Center. |- | Minnesota Children's Museum | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Children's | |- | Minnesota Discovery Center | 100px | Chisholm | St. Louis | Iron Range | Mining | Formerly Ironworld Discovery Center, area's mining and local history |- | Minnesota Governor's Residence | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | Tours offered by the Minnesota Historical Society |- | Minnesota History Center | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | History | Main museum of the Minnesota Historical Society, history of Minnesota, also changing exhibits of national and international history |- | Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum | | Alexandria | Douglas | Vikingland | Maritime | Exhibits on the regional heritage of elegant lake resorts, boating, and fishing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://minnesotalakesmaritimemuseum.org/ )〕 |- | Minnesota Machinery Museum | | Hanley Falls | Yellow Medicine | Southwest Minnesota | Agriculture | (website ), features 5 buildings with agriculture equipment and farm life displays |- | Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 100px | Winona | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | Art | Features oil paintings, watercolors and three-dimensional marine art objects, folk art, photographs and maps focusing on river life |- | Minnesota Military Museum | 100px | Little Falls | Morrison | Central Minnesota | Military | Located in Camp Ripley |- | Minnesota Museum of American Art | | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Focus on regional and Minnesota artists |- | Minnesota Museum of Mining | 100px | Chisholm | St. Louis | Iron Range | Mining | (website ), iron mining |- | Minnesota Music Hall of Fame | | New Ulm | Brown | Minnesota River Valley | Music | Exhibits honor Minnesota music legends like Bob Dylan, Prince, Whoopee John Wilfahrt, Harold Loeffelmacher, The Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland and also ethnic music like polkas |- | Minnesota Pioneer Park | | Annandale | Wright | West Central Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), turn-of-the-20th-century pioneer life, includes church, school, general store, log cabin, sod house, barber shop, blacksmith, agricultural and historical museum displays, dentist office, doctor's office, funeral parlor, town hall, jail, harness shop, milliner, pharmacy, post office, depot |- | Minnesota State Capitol | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | History | |- | Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum | 100px | Owatonna | Steele | Southeast Minnesota | History | History of orphanage from 1886 to 1945 |- | Minnesota Streetcar Museum | 75px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Transportation | Five operable streetcars, three from Twin Cities Rapid Transit fleet and two from the Duluth Street Railway Company |- | Minnesota Transportation Museum | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | Jackson Street Roundhouse location in St. Paul features equipment and regional railroad history |- | Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum | | Falcon Heights | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Medical | (website ), part of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota |- | Monongalia Historical Society and Museum | | New London | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Local history |〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2836/monongalia-historical-society--museum )〕 |- | Moose Lake Agate and Geological Center | 100px | Moose Lake | Carlton | Iron Range | Geology | Exhibit hall on Lake Superior agates (the state gemstone) and the geology of Minnesota. Located in Moose Lake State Park. |- | Moose Lake Depot and Fires of 1918 Museum | 100px | Moose Lake | Carlton | Iron Range | Local history | Exhibits about area railroads and the 1918 Cloquet Fire |- | Mower County Historical Society | | Austin | Mower | Southeast Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), includes Log Cabin Museum, Rural School Museum, Rahilly Museum with farm equipment and vehicles, Rural Life Museum about farm life, Arts Museum with art and exhibit about rural churches, Wayside Chapel, Pioneer Museum including the Mower County courtroom display, Railroad Museum with railroad cars and depot, Fireman's Museum, Blacksmith Shop, Hormel Museum about the George A. Hormel Company, Communications Museum, Native American Museum |- | Murray County Historical Museum | 100px | Slayton | Murray | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | (website ), exhibits include a church replica, country store, railroad display, early radios and phonographs, tools and machinery, Native American artifacts, furniture and glassware |- | Museum of Lake Minnetonka | 100px | Excelsior | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Maritime | Steamboat ''Minnehaha'' cruises between Excelsior and Wayzata |- | Museum of Russian Art | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Russian art from the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Soviet-era art |- | National Eagle Center | 100px | Wabasha | Wabasha | Southeast Minnesota | Natural history | Live rehabilitated eagles and eagle, wildlife, and conservation exhibits |- | Nemeth Art Center | 100px | Park Rapids | Hubbard | Central Minnesota | Art | (website ), features permanent collection of 15th–19th century European paintings, changing art exhibits and historical displays, located in the former Hubbard County Courthouse |- | New Brighton History Center | | New Brighton | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | (website ), an 1887 railroad depot museum of railroad artifacts, historical pictures, area maps, caboose, railroad work cart, baggage carts and mail cart, operated by the New Brighton Historical Society |- | New York Mills Regional Cultural Center | | New York Mills | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Art | (website ), rural art and culture center, changing art exhibits |- | North American Bear Center | | Ely | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Natural history | Exhibits about the natural history of bears found in North America, live American black bear ambassadors〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bear.org )〕 |- | North Oaks Farm | 100px | North Oaks | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Farm | Preserved 5-acre farm with dairy, blacksmith shop and red barn, open for events |- | North Saint Paul Historical Society Museum | | North St. Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | (website ) |- | North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum | 100px | Tofte | Cook | Arrowhead | Industry, maritime | Exhibits celebrating the people and technology that established commercial fishing on the harsh North Shore of Lake Superior. |- | North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting | 100px | North St. Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Scouting | Collection of over 150,000 items on the history of scouting in the Upper Midwest. |- | North West Company Fur Post | 100px | Pine City | Pine | East Central Minnesota | Living history | Reconstructed post from the winter of 1804-05 |- | Northfield Historical Society Museum | 100px | Northfield | Rice | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ), housed in the last bank Jesse James tried to rob |- | Old Home Town Museum | | Stephen | Marshall | Red River Valley | Local history | (website ), features period displays, household items, agriculture equipment, personal collections |- | Old Town Hall History Center | 100px | Bloomington | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | (website ), operated by the Bloomington Historical Society |- | Oliver H. Kelley Farm | 100px | Elk River | Sherburne | Central Minnesota | Agricultural, living history | 1860s working farm |- | Osakis Area Heritage Center | | Osakis | Douglas | Vikingland | Local history | (information ) |- | Otter Tail County Historical Museum | | Fergus Falls | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Local history | (website ), exhibits include dioramas and period rooms featuring area natural history, Native Americans, European settlement, agriculture and farm life, and a recreation of a 1910s Main Street |- | Owatonna Arts Center | | Owatonna | Steele | Southeast Minnesota | Art | (website ) |- | Pavek Museum of Broadcasting | 100px | St. Louis Park | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Technology | Vintage radio and television equipment |- | Paynesville Area Historical Museum | | Paynesville | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Paynesville Area Historical Society |- | Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village | | Thief River Falls | Pennington | Red River Valley | Open-air | (website ), operated by the Pennington County Historical Society, replica early 20th century village including a museum, two railroad depots, one-room schoolhouse, church, log houses, general store, two-story Victorian house, blacksmith shop and barber shop |- | Peterson Station Museum | 100px | Peterson | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and research material in an 1877 railway station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.petersonmn.org/museum.htm )〕 |- | Phelps Mill | 75px | Underwood | Otter Tail | Vikingland | Industry | Turn-of-the-20th-century flour mill is open for seasonal self-guided tours |- | Pickwick Mill | 100px | Pickwick | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | Industry | 150-year-old working model of a commercial gristmill |- | Pine Island Area History Center | | Pine Island | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Pine Island Historical Society |- | Pipestone County Museum | 100px | Pipestone | Pipestone | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Pipestone County Historical Society |- | Pipestone National Monument | 75px | Pipestone | Pipestone | Southwest Minnesota | Native American | Pipestone quarry and exhibits |- | Plainview Area History Center | | Plainview | Wabasha | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Housed in a former church〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.plainviewareahistorycenter.org/ )〕 |- | Polaris Experience Center | | Roseau | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Industry | (website ), history of Polaris Industries, manufacturer of snowmobiles, ATVs, motorbikes and other vehicles |- | Polish Cultural Institute and Museum | 100px | Winona | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | Ethnic | Polish immigrant life in Winona and the surrounding areas |- | Polk County Museum | | Crookston | Polk | Red River Valley | Open-air | (website ), operated by the Polk County Historical Society, includes museum with period room displays, household items, general store, doctor’s office, barbershop, communications center (telephone and switchboard center), an 1870 log house, two room prairie house, blacksmith shop, a one room school house and a church |- | Pope County Museum & History Center | 100px | Glenwood | Pope | Vikingland | Local history | (website ), operated by the Pope County Historical Society |- | Prairie Village | | Ada | Norman | Red River Valley | Open-air | Operated by the Norman County Minnesota Historical Society, 12 historic buildings that tell the story of the county’s beginning〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.co.norman.mn.us/index.asp?SEC=37A4B8A5-427E-4433-94B7-8453CD213EEF&DE=587F9660-5D7D-469C-8679-88FBDB04B727&Type=B_LOC )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/NormanCountyHistoricalAndGenealogySociety )〕 |- | Purcell-Cutts House | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | 1913 Prairie School style house, operated by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts |- | Ramsey County Historical Society Gallery | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | (website ), located in the North Lobby of the Landmark Center |- | Raptor Ridge Museum | | Spicer | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Natural history | Private collection of Native American artifacts, dinosaur bones and fossils, seashells, butterflies, rocks and minerals〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.willmarlakesarea.com/node/1203 )〕 |- | Red River History Museum | | Shelly | Norman | Red River Valley | Local history | Includes 3 working looms, exhibits on local doctors, schools, military uniforms and old toys, operated by the Norman County Historical Society in a former school〔〔 |- | Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum | | Crookston | Polk | Red River Valley | Agriculture | (website ), sugarbeet and agriculture related equipment and memorabilia |- | Red Wing Marine Museum | 100px | Red Wing | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Industry | A collection of boat motors manufactured by a notable local company in operation 1902–1979, plus rotating exhibits on boat and river history, housed in an 1884 waterworks. |- | Red Wing Pottery Museum | | Red Wing | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Pottery | (website ), creation and examples of Red Wing Pottery, operated by the Red Wing Collectors Society |- | Redwood County Museum | 100px | Redwood Falls | Redwood | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Operated by the Redwood County Historical Society, includes period rooms, artifacts of local history and culture |- | R. D. Hubbard House | 100px | Mankato | Blue Earth | Minnesota River Valley | Historic house | Victorian period house, operated by the Blue Earth County Historical Society |- | Renville County Historical Museum | | Morton | Renville | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Operated by the Renville County Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.co.renville.mn.us/about_us/county_history/renville_county_historical_society_and_museum.php )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2845/renville-county-historical-museum/ )〕 |- | Rice County Museum of History | 100px | Faribault | Rice | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Rice County Historical Society, exhibits include a Main Street business display, notable residents, natural history, military history, Sellner Manufacturing |- | Richfield History Center | 75px | Richfield | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Local history | (website ), operated by the Richfield Historical Society, provides tours of the historic Riley Lucas Bartholomew House |- | Rochester Art Center | | Rochester | Olmsted | Southeast Minnesota | Art | Changing exhibits of contemporary art |- | Roseau County Museum | | Roseau | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Roseau County Historical Society |- | Roseau Pioneer Farm and Village | | Roseau | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), includes over 15 historic buildings |- | Rourke Art Museum | 100px | Moorhead | Clay | Red River Valley | Art | Works from around the world and many traditions |- | Runestone Museum | | Alexandria | Douglas | Vikingland | Open-air | (website ), includes Kensington Runestone, pioneer period rooms, Minnesota natural history dioramas, early photos, Norse history, Native American exhibit, and restored Fort Alexandria with school and general store |- | St. James Historical Museum | | St. James | Watonwan | Southern Minnesota | Local history | Operated by the St. James Chapter Watonwan County Historical Society in the Little White Historical Church〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://stjameschamberofcommerce.com/the-chamber/business-directory/st-james-chapter-wat-cty-hist-soc/ )〕 |- | St. Louis County Historical Society Museum | | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Local history | (website ), part of the Duluth Depot |- | St. Peter State Hospital Museum | | St. Peter | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Medical | Museum about former psychiatric treatment facility later known as St. Peter Regional Treatment Center, open by appointment〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Peter-State-Hospital-Museum/409331259151192 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stpeterchamber.com/history )〕 |- | Saint Benedict's Monastery | 100px | St. Joseph | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Religious | Includes the Haehn Museum with exhibits about the history of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict |- | Sauk Centre Area Historical Society Museum | 100px | Sauk Centre | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Local history | Local artifacts and research material housed in a 1904 Carnegie library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sauk-Centre-Area-Historical-Society/624050070966654 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.saukcentre.govoffice2.com/index.asp?Type=B_LOC&SEC=&DE= )〕 |- | Saum Schools | 100px | Battle Township | Beltrami | Northern Minnesota | School | One-room log school (1903) and two-story frame schoolhouse (1912) built as on of Minnesota's first consolidated schools |- | Schaefer Gallery | | St. Peter | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Art | Art gallery of Gustavus Adolphus College〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://gustavus.edu/art/schaefer.php )〕 |- | Schech Mill | 100px | Caledonia | Houston | Southeast Minnesota | Industry | Late-19th-century working watermill |- | Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Music | Located in the Landmark Center, historic music instruments, letters and other documents of music history |- | Schwanke's Car, Tractor and Truck Museum | | Willmar | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Transportation | (website ), private collection of tractors, cars, trucks, gas engines, gas pumps, signs and more |- | Science Museum of Minnesota | 100px | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Science | |- | Settler's Square Museum | | Warren | Marshall | Northern Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), (information ), operated by the Marshall County Historical Society, depicts an 1880s street with store fronts, antique farm machinery and the UFO Sheriff’s car of Marshall County |- | The Shed | | Warroad | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Automobile | (website ), open by appointment, collection of classic and muscle cars, automotive, sports and music memorabilia |- | Sherburne History Center | | Becker | Sherburne | Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ) |- | Sibley County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Henderson | Sibley | West Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), located in the 1880s August F. Poehler House |- | Sibley House Historic Site | 100px | Mendota | Dakota | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | American Fur Company trading post, homes of Henry Hastings Sibley and Jean-Baptiste Faribault, operated by the Minnesota Historical Society |- | Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home | 100px | Sauk Centre | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Biographical | Boyhood home and museum about author Sinclair Lewis |- | Sinclair Lewis Museum | 100px | Sauk Centre | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Biographical | Displays and artifacts pertaining to author Sinclair Lewis, including his writing desk. Located in the Sinclair Lewis Interpretive Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sinclairlewisfoundation.com/museum/museum.htm )〕 |- | Sleepy Eye Area Depot Museum | 100px | Sleepy Eye | Brown | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | Operated by the Sleepy Eye Area Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thedepotlady.blogspot.com/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.museumsofmn.com/sleepy-eye-area-historical-society-depot-museum.html )〕 |- | Soo Line Depot Museum | 100px | Crosby | Crow Wing | Iron Range | Local history | Local history and railroads |- | Somali Museum of Minnesota | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | | (website ), Somali and East African heritage |- | Soudan Underground Mine State Park | 100px | Breitung Township | St. Louis | Iron Range | Mining | Tours of Minnesota's oldest, deepest and richest iron mine |- | SMSU Art Museum | | Marshall | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Art | Part of Southwest Minnesota State University, two galleries and displays around campus〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.smsu.edu/campuslife/attractions/gallery/ )〕 |- | SMSU Museum of Indigenous Americans | | Marshall | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Art | Part of Southwest Minnesota State University, Native American artifacts including pottery, artwork, baskets, projectile points |- | SMSU Natural History Museum | | Marshall | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Natural history | Part of Southwest Minnesota State University, plants and animals of southwest Minnesota〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.smsu.edu/campuslife/attractions/naturalhistorymuseum/ )〕 |- | Spam Museum | 75px | Austin | Mower | Southeast Minnesota | Food | All about Spam |- | Sperry House | | Willmar | Kandiyohi | West Central Minnesota | Historic house | (website ), open by appointment with the Kandiyohi County Historical Society, 1893 house decorated with turn-of-the-20th-century furnishings |- | Spirit of Peace Indian Museum | | Pipestone | Pipestone | Southwest Minnesota | Native American | (website ), local Native American history |- | Split Rock Lighthouse | 100px | Two Harbors | Lake | Arrowhead | Maritime | Includes the original tower and lens, the fog signal building, the oil house, and the three keepers' houses |- | Spring Valley Methodist Church Museum | 75px | Spring Valley | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Housed in former church attended by the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder, local history exhibits, operated by the Spring Valley Community Historical Society |- | Stans Homestead and Garden-Park | | Shakopee | Scott | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Multiple | (website ), operated by the Scott County Historical Society, history of Scott County and entrepreneur Maurice Stans, African and Native American artifact collections |- | Staples Historical Society Museum | | Staples | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Period displays〔 |- | Stearns History Museum | 100px | St. Cloud | Stearns | Central Minnesota | Local history | Two-story museum of Stearns County history, established in 1982 within a park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stearns-museum.org )〕 |- | Stevens County Historical Museum | | Morris | Stevens | Vikingland | Local history | (website ), operated by the Stevens County Historical Society |- | Stone House Museum | 100px | Marine on St. Croix | Washington | East Central Minnesota | Local history | Housed in a former town hall and jail〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marine.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_LOC&SEC=&DE= )〕 |- | Swensson Farm Museum | 100px | Montevideo | Chippewa | Minnesota River Valley | Agriculture | farmstead of an innovative Swedish immigrant, with a 22-room brick farmhouse and 1880s barn. Operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society.〔 |- | Swift County History Museum | | Benson | Swift | West Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Swift County Historical Society |- | Terrace Mill | 100px | Sedan | Pope | Vikingland | Open-air | (website ), includes 1903 flour mill, 1870s log cabin, cottage with Scandinavian furnishings and folk art, located in the Terrace Mill Historic District |- | Todd County Historical Museum | 100px | Long Prairie | Todd | Central Minnesota | Local history | Education and research center on Todd County history〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.toddcountymuseum.com/ )〕 |- | Tower Train Museum | 100px | Tower | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Railroad | Includes 1910 Duluth and Iron Range Railway class K-1 2-8-0 (number 1218) steam locomotive, exhibits of local history, operated by the Tower-Soudan Historical Society |- | Traverse County Historical Society Museum | 100px | Wheaton | Traverse | Western Minnesota | Local history | Includes replications of a meat market, a dentist’s office, home living quarters and a general store〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2794/traverse-county-historical-society-museum/ )〕 |- | Treaty Site History Center | | St. Peter | Nicollet | Minnesota River Valley | Local history | (website ), operated by the Nicollet County Historical Society, includes exhibits about the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux |- | Tweed Museum of Art | | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Art | Part of University of Minnesota Duluth, strengths in American landscape painting |- | Twin City Model Railroad Museum | | Saint Paul | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | (website ), located in Bandana Square |- | Twin Valley Heritage & Art Center | | Twin Valley | Norman | Red River Valley | Local history | (website ), local history, rotating art gallery and information center |- | Two Harbors Light Station | 100px | Two Harbors | Lake | Arrowhead | Maritime | Minnesota's oldest operating lighthouse, completed in 1892. Managed by the Lake County Historical Society, offering tours, exhibits, and bed & breakfast accommodations. |- | United States Hockey Hall of Fame | 100px | Eveleth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Sports | |- | Vasa Museum | 100px | Vasa | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Early area Swedish heritage〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cannonfalls.org/heritage.html )〕 |- | Verndale Museum | | Verndale | Wadena | Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Verndale Historical Society, open by appointment |- | Village of Yesteryear | 100px | Owatonna | Steele | Southeast Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), operated by the Steele County Historical Society, turn-of-the-20th-century village includes two log cabins, railroad station and a caboose, general store/post office, fire station, farm machinery building, blacksmith shop, country school, 1868 Dunnell mansion, and 1891 St. Wenceslaus of Moravia Church |- | Virginia Area Historical Society Museum | | Virginia | St. Louis | Iron Range | Local history | (website ), includes exhibits on the logging era, Virginia's two major fires, and the trolley line |- | Voyageurs National Park | 100px | International Falls | Koochiching | Northern Minnesota | Local history | Museum in visitor center at Rainy Lake Visitor Center, interpretive exhibits at Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center |- | Wabasha County Historical Museum | 100px | Reads Landing | Wabasha | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Wabasha County Historical Society in the Reads Landing School |- | Wadena County Historical Society Museum | | Wadena | Wadena | Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ) |- | Walker Art Center | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Contemporary art museum with adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden |- | Wanda Gág House | 75px | New Ulm | Brown | Minnesota River Valley | Biographical | Home of artist Anton Gág and children's author Wanda Gág |- | Warden's House Museum | 100px | Stillwater | Washington | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic house | Turn-of-the-20th-century home used by 13 prison wardens from 1853 to 1914, operated by the Washington County Historical Society |- | Warroad Heritage Center | | Warroad | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Local history | Exhibits include fishing, industry, ranching, boating, Native Americans and transportation〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://visitwarroad.com/museums/ )〕 |- | Waseca County Historical Society Museum | | Waseca | Waseca | Southern Minnesota | Local history | (website ) |- | Washburn-Zittleman House Museum | | Spring Valley | Fillmore | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ), includes turn of the 20th century furnishing, quilts, toys, period kitchen, agriculture machinery, operated by the Spring Valley Community Historical Society |- | Washington County Courthouse | 100px | Stillwater | Washington | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Historic site | Tours by appointment or self-guided |- | Watkins Museum & Store | 100px | Winona | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | History | (website ), history and memorabilia from J.R. Watkins Apothecary, now Watkins Incorporated |- | Watonwan County Historical Center | | Madelia | Watonwan | Southern Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Watonwan County Historical Society |- | Wayzata Depot | 100px | Wayzata | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | Operated by the Wayzata Historical Society |- | Weisman Art Museum | 100px | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Art | Art museum with permanent collections of American modernism, Koren furniture, and Mimbres pottery. Operated by the University of Minnesota in a 1993 building designed by Frank Gehry. |- | Wells Fargo History Museum | | Minneapolis | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | History | Exhibits include an 1863 Concord Stagecoach, a recreated 1900 Town Bank, gold nuggets, coins and paper currency |- | Westbrook Heritage House Museum | 100px | Westbrook | Cottonwood | Southwest Minnesota | Local history | Restored 1900 depot with local history exhibits and a log cabin from the late 19th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do/2814/westbrook-heritage-house-museum )〕 |- | West Riverside Museum | 100px | Cambridge | Isanti | East Central Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), operated by the Isanti County Historical Society, includes restored 20th century schoolhouse, 1859 Edblad Pioneer Log Home |- | Western Hennepin County Pioneer Association Pioneer Museum | | Long Lake | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | History | (website ), features period rooms, including the Victorian room, general store, textile room ann music room |- | Wheels Across the Prairie Museum | 100px | Tracy | Lyon | Southwest Minnesota | Open-air | (website ), includes car barn, post office, schoolhouse, train depot, chapel, church, blacksmith shop and pioneer exhibits |- | White Bear Lake Depot Museum | | White Bear Lake | Ramsey | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Railroad | (website ), operated by the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society, exhibits of railroad and local history |- | Wilkin County Historical Museum | | Breckenridge | Wilkin | Western Minnesota | Local history | Operated by the Wilkin County Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.co.wilkin.mn.us/index.asp?SEC=15D0E582-3CCB-4176-BD27-A8BFF47A8810&Type=B_BASIC )〕 |- | ''William A. Irvin'' | 100px | Duluth | St. Louis | Arrowhead | Maritime | Retired lake freighter with a 14,000-ton cargo capacity and luxury passenger quarters, in service 1938–1978. |- | Winnebago Area Museum | | Winnebago | Faribault | Southern Minnesota | Local history | (website ), houses one of the largest privately held Native American artifacts collections in the state |- | Winona County History Museum | | Winona | Winona | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | Operated by the Winona County Historical Society, located in a former National Guard Armory〔 |- | Wm. S. Marvin Training and Visitor Center | | Warroad | Roseau | Northern Minnesota | Industry | (website ), history and manufacture of Marvin Windows and Doors |- | The Works | | Bloomington | Hennepin | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Science | Technology, engineering and hands-on science |- | Wright County Heritage Center | 100px | Buffalo | Wright | West Central Minnesota | Local history | (website ), operated by the Wright County Historical Society |- | Yellow Medicine County Historical Society and Museum | 100px | Granite Falls | Yellow Medicine | Minnesota River Valley | Local history |〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.co.ym.mn.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC= )〕 |- | Zumbrota Area Historical Society and Museum | | Zumbrota | Goodhue | Southeast Minnesota | Local history | (website ) |- |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of museums in Minnesota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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