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   Minneapolis Institute of Art

   An encyclopaedic museum in Minneapolis holding some ninety thousand objects across five thousand years, from Chinese jades to a complete Chinese reception room. Admission to the permanent collection is free.

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   Walker Art Center

   A contemporary art centre in Lowry Hill, founded on a lumber baron's collection in 1879 and now holding some 13,000 works, with a strong record in performance and design. Its 2005 Herzog & de Meuron addition faces the sculpture garden across the street.

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   Minnesota State Capitol

   The Minnesota capitol in Saint Paul, finished in 1905 by Cass Gilbert with the largest self-supporting marble dome in the world, modelled on St Peter's. Four gilded horses on the roof stand for earth, wind, fire and water; free tours run daily.

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   Weisman Art Museum

   Founded in 1934 as the University Gallery and housed since 1993 in Frank Gehry's crumpled stainless-steel building above the Mississippi. Its 20,000 works include American modernists such as Marsden Hartley and Alfred Maurer, along with a notable collection of traditional Korean furniture.

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   Fort Snelling

   A stone fort of 1825 on the bluff where the Minnesota meets the Mississippi, and the first US installation in the region. Dred Scott was held here as a slave in free territory, a fact central to the 1857 Supreme Court case, and Dakota people were interned below the walls in 1862.

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   Cathedral of Saint Paul, National Shrine of the Apostle Paul

   A domed cathedral of 1915 on Summit Hill, seating three thousand, built by Archbishop Ireland to face the state capitol across the city. Its copper dome is fifty-eight metres high, and six shrines around the sanctuary honour the nationalities of the immigrants who paid for it.

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   Basilica of Saint Mary

   The first basilica designated in the United States, in 1926, and co-cathedral of the archdiocese, on Hennepin Avenue. It was built from 1907 in Beaux-Arts style, and its block party each July is the longest-running church music festival in the country.

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   Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

   A 4.5-hectare sculpture park opened in 1988 opposite the Walker, with about sixty works permanently sited. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Spoonbridge and Cherry, a fountain in the shape of a spoon holding a cherry, is the city's most photographed object.

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   Mill City Museum

   A museum built inside the burnt-out shell of the Washburn A Mill, which exploded in 1878 killing eighteen men and burned again in 1991. Minneapolis milled more flour than anywhere in the world from 1880 to 1930, and the ruin and the eight-storey Flour Tower tell it.

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    Dinkytown

    The commercial district beside the University of Minnesota, at 14th Avenue and 4th Street SE, of bookshops, cheap restaurants and student housing. Bob Dylan spent 1959 and 1960 playing the coffee houses here before leaving for New York.

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   Minnehaha Park

   A city park around a waterfall that drops sixteen metres into a limestone gorge, one of the oldest parks in Minneapolis and named from the Dakota for curling water. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha made the falls famous before he had ever seen them.

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   SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge

   A Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter coaster at Nickelodeon Universe inside the Mall of America, with a beyond-vertical first drop of ninety-seven degrees. The whole ride is indoors, running above the shopfronts, and the park is the largest indoor theme park in the country.

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   American Swedish Institute

   A museum in the 1908 mansion of the Swedish-language newspaper publisher Swan Turnblad, who gave the house, the paper and his fortune away in 1929. Thirty-three rooms of Swedish tile stoves and carved woodwork sit alongside a modern wing and a well-regarded café.

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   Church of St. Casimir

   A Beaux-Arts Catholic church of 1904 in the Payne-Phalen district of Saint Paul, built by Polish immigrants and named for their patron Casimir. It records the Central European settlement of the city's East Side.

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   Christ Church Lutheran

   A Lutheran church of 1949 by Eliel Saarinen, his last completed building, with an education wing added by his son Eero in 1962. Its asymmetric brick nave and stepped ceiling made it a landmark of American modern church design, and it is a National Historic Landmark.

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   Indian Mounds Park

   A park on the bluffs above the Mississippi in Saint Paul with six surviving burial mounds, built between about 200 BC and AD 400 and treated as sacred ground by the Dakota. Sixteen more were destroyed by nineteenth-century development; the park was renamed Wicaḣapi in 2021.

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   Como-Harriet Streetcar Line

   A heritage streetcar line running two kilometres of original right-of-way between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska, operated by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum. Restored wooden cars from the 1900s run it; the city once had 850 kilometres of track, all torn up by 1954.

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   Loring Park

   The oldest park in Minneapolis, laid out in 1883 as Central Park and renamed in 1890 for Charles Loring, first head of the park board. Its pond, gardens and bandstand lie between downtown and the sculpture garden across the freeway bridge.

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   Fort Snelling State Park

   A state park at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, on the floodplain below the fort, with about thirty kilometres of trail through bottomland forest. Pike Island in the middle was where Dakota families were held over the winter of 1862-63.

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    Mill Ruins Park

    A park on the west side of St Anthony Falls where the foundations, tailraces and canals of the demolished flour mills were excavated and left open. The Stone Arch Bridge of 1883 crosses the river beside it, now for pedestrians only.

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