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The Twin Cities metropolitan area is second only to New York City for theatre seats per capita. Many celebrated stages are located in or near downtown Minneapolis. Visitors also will enjoy the many museums and cultural institutions found in the Twin Cities. And has anyone heard of Mall of America? That’s here too.

• Art, art, and more art
• All the world's a stage
• Museums and attractions

Art, art, and more art

• Minnesota Museum of American Art
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
• The Soap Factory
• Walker Art Center
• Weisman Art Museum

All the world’s a stage

• Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre
• Bryant Lake Bowl (theater in a bowling alley!)
• The Children’s Theatre Company
• Fitzgerald Theater, featuring Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion
• Great American History Theater
• Guthrie Theater
• Hennepin Theatre District
• Illusion Theater
• Minnesota Orchestra
• Mixed Blood Theatre
• Penumbra Theatre
• Theatre de la Jeune Lune
• Theatre in the Round
• University Theatre, Rarig Center

Museums and attractions

• The American Swedish Institute
• Bell Museum of Natural History
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour of St. Paul
• Goldstein Museum of Design
• Historic Fort Snelling
• James J. Hill house
• Mall of America
• Mill City Museum
• Minnesota Center for Photography
• Minnesota History Center
• Pavek Museum of Broadcasting
• Saint Paul Gangster Tour
• Science Museum of Minnesota
• University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Did you know 258 Statues of Liberty could lie inside Mall of America? The nation's largest retail and entertainment complex is home to 520 stores, an amusement park, an aquarium, and more. It is located conveniently on the Hiawatha Light Rail.

The Guthrie Theater is one of many creative spaces in the Twin Cities that delight and inspires through performance and education. The new Guthrie recently opened to critic acclaim from The New York Times, Newsweek, and others.

This larger than life spoon and cherry is the centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center. Art is all around you in the Twin Cities!