Minnesota Attractions

North Central/Western Region

Stearns History Museum - The Stearns History Museum is one of the finest history museums in Minnesota. With over 1,000 artifacts in its exhibit hall, the History Museum has something for everyone. Visit us and stroll through two floors of exhibits, research your family history and shop the Museum Store. Just minutes off I-94 along Minnesota Highway 15 in St. Cloud, the Stearns History Museum is located in a 100-acre nature park with flower gardens and walking paths.

Minnesota Fishing Museum and Education Center - The MINNESOTA FISHING MUSEUM is a non-profit (501c3) organization dedicated to preserving the heritage and history of freshwater fishing in Minnesota.

Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center - The Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center provides interpretation of the Hjemkomst Viking Ship, Hopperstad Stave Church Replica, Red River Valley Exhibition and hosts traveling exhibits in 7,000 sq. feet of temporary exhibition space. The interpretive center offers tours, lectures and festivals, hosts residencies and performances and provides educational services. Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center is a community resource for 150,000 people in the Fargo-Moorhead metro area, and serves an average of 40,000 visitors a year from all over the world.
Oliver H. Kelley Farm - Step onto a working 1860s farm. Pick heirloom vegetables from the garden, visit the farmhands and animals at the barn, or churn butter and see what's cooking in the farmhouse. Costumed guides work the fields with oxen and horses.

Headwaters Science Center - Located near the headwaters of the Mississippi River in downtown Bemidji, Minnesota, Headwaters Science Center is a non-profit facility under a parent organization called Opportunities in Science, Inc. HSC is dedicated to science education and environmental awareness.

Mille Lacs Indian Museum - The Mille Lacs Indian Museum, which opened May 18, 1996, offers exhibits dedicated to telling the story of the Band. Trace their journey to settle in Northern Minnesota, learn about their fate during a period of treaties made and broken, and follow their story up to the present.

Northeastern Region

Hockey Hall of Fame - Since 1973, 103 great American hockey people with outstanding hockey achievements from all of the competitive levels of the game have been enshrined. Visitors experience the thrilling game action and inspiring achievements of players, coaches, builders and administrators through authentic, informative and entertaining displays and memorabilia.

Glensheen Estate - Glensheen, Duluth's American Castle, as showcased on A&E's America's Castles, is a 7.6 acre estate built between 1905-08 by Chester A. Congdon. The estate's gently sloping terrain may have enticed Mr. Congdon and his wife, Clara, to select this site for their family home.

Saint Louis County Heritage and Arts Center - You haven't seen Duluth until you've explored the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center's Historic Union Depot, better know as simply the Depot. This former Union Railroad Depot was built in 1892 by the Boston firm of Peabody, Stearns and Furber.

Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center - The Lake Superior Marine Museum Association seeks to cooperate with the Corps of Engineers so as to acquire, preserve and exhibit marine artifacts and to present programs pertaining to Lake Superior and to disseminate such information to the general public through museum attendance, newsletters and meetings, and to achieve the above with a growing membership of involved citizens who will provide financial resources through their membership

International Wolf Center - The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future.

Lake Superior Zoo - The Lake Superior Zoo is located in the beautiful lakeside city of Duluth, and is one of only 180 zoo's and aquariums (out of more than 1800) in the United States to have achieved the ranking of an Accredited Institution of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA). It is one of three accredited zoos in Minnesota and the only one outside of the Greater Metro Area.

Forest History Center - The Forest History Center has just opened new interactive exhibits and a renovated Visitor Center. The new exhibits include a state-of-the-art timber harvester simulator, a multimedia theater show about forest fires and many other interactive exhibits about the natural and cultural history of the forest.

North West Company Fur Post - Step out of the modern visitor center into the recreated world of 1804, where you can stop at the Ojibwe encampment and learn how the seasonal living of the Ojibwe changed when Europeans arrived.
Renegade Comedy Theatre - The only professional theatre company in the Northland devoted exclusively to fun & laughs! Renegade offers original comedy revues every summer & winter, a Comedy Spook Show every Halloween season, and comic productions by established playwrights like Durang, Kling & Simon and a full season of Renegade Children's Theatre.

Lake Superior Railroad Museum - Climb up into the cab of one of the world's largest steam locomotives and take the throttle of the Yellowstone Class Mallet. Take in the view from the cupola of a wooden caboose. Imagine what dining on the rails was like as you marvel at one-of-a-kind dining car china and table settings displayed in a restored, turn-of-the-century coach.

Ironworld Discovery Center - Ironworld Discovery Center is where the heritage of northeastern Minnesota is preserved, celebrated and showcased for visitors of all ages. Welcome to Ironworld Discovery Center, preserving Minnesota's mining and immigration history. Imagine...leaving everything behind to follow a dream and embarking on an incredible journey.

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum - The Karpeles Manuscript Museum is one of the world's largest private holding of important original documents and manuscripts. The Museum features a rotating exhibit designed to focus on 26 documents at any one time. The documents are educational and entertaining. Topics are presented from the fields of history, music, science, literature and art.

Duluth Entertainment Convention Center - The Duluth Entertainment Convention Centthe restored steamer S.S. William A. Irvin, former flagship of U.S. Steel's Great Lakes Fleet, Duluth OMNIMAX, Ship of Ghouls. The center is also home to a variety of concerts, movies, ballet, symphony, broadway shows and more.

Great Lakes Aquarium - With more than 70 species of fish, numerous critters, and lots of interactive exhibits—including some where you can get your hands wet (and maybe more!)—the Aquarium promises plenty of fun for everyone.

Southern Region

Commonweal Theatre Company - The artists of the Commonweal bring years of training and a lifelong commitment to sharing soulful stories, told with honesty and creativity. We seek to enlighten, tickle, and uplift you. When we succeed, together we make our world more compassionate, more vital, and more joyful.

Jeffers Petroglyphs - Amid the prairie grasses are islands of uncovered rock, where American Indians left carvings —petroglyphs— humans, deer, elk, buffalo, turtles, thunderbirds, atlatls and arrows. They tell a story that spans 5,000 years. The glyphs served many functions, including recording important events, depicting sacred ceremonies, and emphasizing the importance of animals and hunting.

End-O-Line Railroad Park and Museum - A working railroad yard including a manual turntable still in operating, original CN and W depot, rebuilt enginehouse, watertower, foreman's house, coal bunker -- used as a picnic shelter and gift shop -- a general store and one room schoolhouse complete on the grounds. A model railroad display, in HO scale, is one of the highlights of the museum.

Lac Qui Parle Mission - Learn about life at this pre-territorial mission, the development of the Dakota alphabet and the translation of the Bible. A mission and fur post overlooked the Minnesota River 150 years ago and today the mission still stands.

Spam Museum - Just as every Elvis fan longs to visit Graceland, SPAM fans worldwide now have their own pilgrimage to make. In Austin, Minnesota a 16,500 square-foot SPAM Museum opened in September 2001. Museum visitors will be welcomed to the world of SPAM Family of Products with a variety of interactive and educational games, fun exhibits and remarkable video presentations.
Niagara Cave - Niagara Cave is one of the most fascinating and unique geological attractions in the Midwest. During the one-hour guided tour, visitors will witness a waterfall, nearly 60 feet high, stalactites both delicate and massive, calcite flowstone, fossils that have been dated to over 400 million years old, and a wedding chapel in which over 300 weddings have been performed, plus much more.

Fort Ridgley - Yielding to pressure from the U.S. government in 1851, the Eastern Dakota (Eastern Sioux) sold 35 million acres of their land across southern and western Minnesota. The Dakota moved onto a small reservation along the Minnesota River, stretching from just north of New Ulm to today's South Dakota border. In 1853, the U.S. military started construction on Fort Ridgely, near the southern border of the new reservation and northwest of the German settlement of New Ulm. The fort was designed as a police station to keep peace as settlers poured into the former Dakota lands.

Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center - The Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center (Farmamerica) was commissioned in 1978 by the legislature to preserve and promote the strong heritage of Minnesota agriculture. This is done through experiential learning at a 120-acre site which encourages guests to take an agricultural journey that goes from 1850 to the present.

Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site - The Lower Sioux Agency is at the site of the first organized Indian attack in the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. An exhibit explores the Dakota story before, during and after the war. Self-guided trails interpret the grounds.

Sheldon Theatre - Red Wing's turn-of-the-century Sheldon Theatre showcases the best in arts and entertainment from Minnesota's heartland and beyond. It operates year-round, presenting a broad range of touring events -- including music, theatre, dance, comedy, films, lectures and more. The Sheldon also produces its own shows starring local artists and performing arts groups -- including Sheldon Theatre Brass Band, Phoenix Theatre and Red Wing Singers.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum - Walnut Grove was the childhood home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Visitors can experience the story of the Ingalls family at the Wilder Museum and annual Wilder Pageant.


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