Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Fine arts museum in Minneapolis, United States
Description
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is an art museum in Minneapolis that presents around ninety thousand works in a Beaux-Arts building and spans six curatorial departments. The collections range from ancient objects to contemporary pieces and cover cultures from all continents.
History
The museum opened after a fundraising effort by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, which gathered land donations and money for construction. Doors opened to visitors in the early twentieth century.
Culture
European paintings hang in galleries with high ceilings and wooden floors, while African sculptures stand in rooms lit by natural light from skylights. Visitors move through halls where Asian ceramics and American decorative pieces show how people across millennia worked with form, color and material.
Practical
Entry to the permanent collection is free every day, and on Thursdays and Fridays the doors stay open until evening. The galleries spread across several floors, so plan time for orientation and walking between sections.
Did you know?
The museum also maintains the Purcell-Cutts House, a Prairie School residence that opens for guided tours each second weekend of the month. This house sits away from the main site and shows architectural details from the early modern period.
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