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Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
2400 Third Ave S, Minneapolis 55404
Minnesota's largest art museum, in a neoclassical McKim, Mead and White building in the Whittier neighborhood south of downtown. Its encyclopedic collection runs from ancient China and Africa to European painting, period rooms and photography, and general admission is always free.
Permanent exhibitions
- European painting, including Rembrandt's Lucretia and Van Gogh's Olive Trees
- Chinese art, with a Ming-dynasty reception hall and a Qing scholar's study
- Japanese art, one of the largest collections in the West
- Arts of Africa and the Americas
- Period rooms from Europe and America
- Prairie School architecture and design, including a Frank Lloyd Wright room
- Photography and new media galleries
- Ancient Mediterranean art, including the Doryphoros
