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<h1>Visit Your Favorites</h1>
<div style="margin-top: 20px">With over 90,000 artworks, Mia’s collection includes art from six continents, spanning about 5,000 years. Plan your visit today.</div>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem">Monica Sheets: Das Fundbuero—Civics Lessons</h2>
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Das Fundbuero, or the Lost and Found Office, is an archive of interviews, documents, and objects from East Germany. The artist asks visitors to reflect on their own relationships to democracy and citizenship as they explore the archive.

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<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem">Support the Museum and Become a Mia Member</h2>
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Contributions from members provide essential support to Mia and a year of valuable benefits to you! Join Mia or renew your membership today.

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<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem">Vision for the Future: Embracing the Past and Present</h2>
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In celebration of the Friends’ centennial year, Mia partnered with two Minneapolis high schools and one St. Paul elementary school to create art focused on how students see the future of their communities.

<div style="display: none";>General admission is free. Special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events do require <a href="http://tickets.artsmia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets</a>: reservations are recommended.</div>
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<li>Monday: Closed</li>
<li>Tuesday: 10am–5pm</li>
<li>Wednesday: 10am–5pm</li>
<li>Thursday:  10am–9pm</li>
<li>Friday:  10am–5pm</li>
<li>Saturday:  10am–5pm</li>
<li>Sunday: 10am–5pm</li>
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The museum is closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
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Plan Your Visit

Public Tour

Hearts and Arts: A Friends of the Institute Fundraiser

Family Day

Art in Bloom

Come celebrate your love of the arts at a gathering Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan wouldn’t have missed!
We will step back in time at a historic Summit Hill home, built in 1886 by Maude Hill. Guests will enjoy savory appetizers, decadent desserts and an assortment of beverages. Acclaimed jazz pianist Mary Louise Knutson will provide ambiance on the Steinway grand.
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Proceeds support the purchase of Eugène Delacroix’s Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks and Plums.
Free street parking is available, and you may even consider continuing your evening with a Valentine’s dinner in St. Paul.
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 26.
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A silhouetted man and woman, dressed in their winter essentials, are faced towards each other. Behind them is a green cottage with a smoky chimney.

Richard Holzschuh, Untitled [snowy green cottage with silhouetted couple], 20th century, Pen and ink and watercolor (?) on card, Gift of Gerald Ray Nelson and Joanne Hogan Nelson. 2012.62.8.

Free and open to the public, Art in Bloom exhibits imaginative floral interpretations of selected works of art from Mia’s permanent collection, created by more than 100 individual and commercial florists. Over the course of the four-day festival, everyone is invited to experience the floral beauty and fragrance throughout the museum, take a free guided tour, and enjoy family activities for our younger guests.
More details on the following events coming soon:
Thursday, April 27 
Lecture with Jennifer Jewell on “The Art of Cultivating Place”
Friday, April 28 
Party in Bloom fundraising event
Saturday, April 29 
Panel discussion on eco and pollinator friendly landscapes and gardening, featuring University of Minnesota professor Julie Weisenhorn, and Holly Miller and Rachel Spiess from Bachman&#8217;s
Sunday, April 30 
Buds &amp; Blooms Family Event
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"Art in Bloom 2022" on view at Mia.

Join us for our free monthly event for families, kids, and the young at heart. On the second Sunday of every month, the museum is filled with hands-on art activities, storytelling, artist demonstrations, gallery hunts, self-guided tours and more — all inspired by Mia’s incredible collection.
Family Day Major Sponsor:
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<h3 class="border-top-3" style="margin-bottom:20px">Upcoming Family Day Themes</h3>
January 8th: Express Yourself! 
Start the new year with some self-expression! Experiment on canvas with tempera paint. Make a colorful suncatcher to hang in your window. Don’t forget to complete a gallery hunt for a prize on your way out!

Family Day: Musical Mother's Day

Look for a new topic for exploring Mia’s permanent collection every month. Join us for free tours Thursdays through Sundays at 1 pm.
Current Conversations Tours are one-hour tours with a Mia Guide. Meet at the Info Bar in the General Mills Lobby on the first floor.
Cross Currents Tours are self-directed gallery quests to find Mia Guide-facilitated stops throughout the museum. A Cross Currents tour map, available in the General Mills lobby, will take you throughout the museum to explore cultural connections at your own pace. Guides are available in the indicated galleries from 1 to 3 pm.
<h2>Upcoming Tour Topics</h2>
November Current Conversations: Re-imagine Native/American Art Discover expanded narratives and inclusive histories of Mia’s Native/American galleries.
December Cross Currents: Winter Solstice Experience how cultures around the world await the return of the light, which brings rebirth and renewal.
January Current Conversations: How’s the Weather? Embrace the seasons as you contemplate works of art from various cultures and places.
February Current Conversations: Celebration of African American Art History Discover African American artists’ contributions to art history in the United States.
March Cross Currents: Women in Art Discuss how women, as both creators and inspiration, have influenced art-making around the world.
April Current Conversations: Wild Places Explore how artists revel in the beauties and challenges of the natural world.
May Cross Currents: Global Contemporary Art Examine how contemporary art reflects issues of global awareness, cultural diversity, and advanced technology.
June Current Conversations: Pride Celebrate the LBGTQ+ community through artworks that explore gender identity and social constructs.
<h2>Learn More</h2>
<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/tours">Learn more about Tours at Mia</a>, or <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/tours/guided-tours/">learn how to request a private tour.</a>

Symmetrical design of plants, insects, birds, and amphibians in bright colors.

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Upcoming Events 

What does Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” have to do with Botticelli?

Homer in Love: A New Year’s Tale

Q&A with Valéria Piccoli, Mia’s first curator of Latin American art

How JPMorgan Chase helped bring the Uffizi to Minnesota

Meet the Medicis: The mad, marvelous family behind the Italian Renaissance

Image of Beyonce on a horse juxtaposed with Botticelli's Pallas and the Centaur

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Monica Sheets: Das Fundbuero—Civics Lessons

Support the Museum and Become a Mia Member

Vision for the Future: Embracing the Past and Present