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CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums
Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In this criminally creative display, visitors dive into several crime scenes and use modern... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4	University	Museums
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
When we think of art from India, most of us probably conjure images of Bollywood films or Hindu deities with four arms. This massive show of contemporary Indian photography and video art at MIA promises to be eye-opening, playing with some Indian traditions and stereotypes and exploding others.... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the doors off of artistic sensibilities at the time. Their libertine experimentalism bridged abstract expressionism and pop... More >>

Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center	Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Museums
At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >>

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in America. Sure, some American art scholars can talk about his impact on postwar art movements. But despite the 18 years... More >>

The Hidden World of Bears: Photography by Lynn Rogers Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sun., January 4	University	Art Museums
Grizzly Adams has nothing on biologist Lynn Rogers. Rogers has been studying bears for 40 years, getting close to them, and apparently earning the animals' trust. At the Wildlife Research Center in Ely, Rogers has tracked more than 100 bears with radio collars, some for longer than 20 years. He... More >>

Vatican Splendors: From Saint Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Swiss Guard Minnesota History Center	Daily from Sat., September 27 until Sun., January 11	St. Paul (Downtown)	Art Museums
Remember that Onion headline a few years back when Pope John Paul II died? "Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope." Zing. Everybody knows that the pope and his posse at the Vatican live surrounded by ornate and priceless treasures amid ancient buildings designed and... More >>

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A Nordic Christmas Celebration American Swedish Institute	Sat., December 20, 10:00am-5:00pm	Powderhorn	Holiday/Fall Museums

Art of the Wild: An Exhibit Featuring Minnesota’s Federal Duck Stamp Artists Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Tue., October 7 until Wed., January 7	University	Art Museums

Avant-garde Artist's Books Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., May 24	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Beyond the Maker’s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 19 until Sun., April 19	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 13 until Sun., April 5	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Hmong at Heart Minnesota Children's Museum	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Mon., January 19	St. Paul (Downtown)	Family Events Museums

Julgransplundring American Swedish Institute	Sat., January 10, 10:00am more dates/times	Powderhorn	Holiday/Fall Museums

Margaret Pezalla-Granlund and Max Schollett Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., January 25	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Sleeping in Style: Textiles for the Bedroom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., May 31	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Strange Ornament from the Renaissance Mind Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., May 3	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

Sum of the Parts The Goldstein Museum Of Design	Daily from Sat., November 22 until Sun., January 18	Como	Art Museums

The Louvre and the Masterpiece Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 18 until Sun., January 10	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums

A Nordic Christmas American Swedish Institute	Daily from Mon., November 24 until Sun., January 18	Powderhorn	Art Museums

Bakken Evening Out Bakken Library and Museum	Second Tuesday of every month, 5:00pm-8:00pm	Golden Valley	Museums