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The vicinity minneapolis3/9/2023 The Flour Tower elevator show lifts you through eight floors of the building and transports you back in time to listen to workers’ stories and experience a catastrophic 19th-century explosion when airborne flour ignited.Īt the observation deck on the roof you can survey the entirety Minneapolis’s old industrial riverfront, from Stone Arch Bridge to Saint Anthony Falls.ĥ. ![]() The tour gives an impression of what it would have been liked to work at this facility and the ruins are full of interpretation boards and fun things for kids to do at the Water and Baking Labs. In these galleries you can find out about the groundbreaking milling process that made fine wheat available to a mass market for the first time ever. At that time this was thought to be the largest flour mill in the world. Mill City Museum Source: Ritu Manoj Jethani / shutterstock Mill City Museum, MinneapolisĪ great first stop for the Mississippi riverside and the water-powered industry that it spawned in the 19th century, Mill City Museum is in the ruins of the Washburn A Mill complex, dating to 1880. The Mia’s wealth of European fine art is staggering, and peppered with important names like Lucas Cranach the Elder, El Greco, Joshua Reynolds, Gerard van Honthorst, Manet, Pissarro, Signac, van Gogh, Gauguin, Max Beckmann, Matisse, Francis Bacon and many more than we can list.Ģ. You can check out pre-Columbian artefacts from the Americas and figurines, naturalistic terracotta shrine heads from Nigeria, ornate European decorative arts and classical statuary. There’s an inspiring collection of Asian art, one of the best in the United States, comprising bronzes, samurai armour, jades, ceramics and Chinese architectural elements. Heaven for anyone with a love for art, the Mia has wide-ranging catalogue of more than 80,000 works, spanning five millennia and different regions of the world. Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) Source: EQRoy / shutterstock Minneapolis Institute of Art Tip: a fun way to start your trip would be the Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour or the Twin Cities Highlights Tour 1. In this article we’ll look at all the things you can do in the wider Twin Cities metropolitan area, since downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul are only 15 minutes apart, give or take. Saint Anthony Waterfall on the Mississippi provided the impetus for the largest water-powered milling facility in the world in the 19th century, and the vestiges of this vast complex are preserved near the famous Stone Arch Bridge. What’s fantastic is that you can immerse yourself in this environment, hopping from lake to lake in the Chain of Lakes, without ever having to emerge from the greenery of lakeshores and creek banks. ![]() The city that gave the world Prince and Bob Dylan is one of the Midwest’s cultural and economic powerhouses and shares Twin Cities metropolitan area with its near neighbour, Saint Paul.įew big cities in the world are blessed with as much public parkland as Minneapolis. Water is everywhere, at 13 lakes, the roaring Mississippi River, wetland and waterfalls.
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