Bell Museum of Natural History

Family Vacations, Best Attractions & Activities, Museums: Dedicated to Minnesota's past, especially in regard to landscape and wildlife, this museum features dioramas that simulate actual forests, fields, streams, and swamps. The Touch and See Room provides real animal fur and bones that children love to handle, and rainforest exhibits and botanical artwork also please visitors. In addition,...

Admission is free to members and to University of Minnesota students.

The Bell's adjoining auditorium is home to an excellent art-house movie venue, the University Film Society.

In Short
Tucked in a corner of the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus, the Bell Museum is one of America's foremost teaching museums. Bell promotes research in the natural...

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About The Bell Museum: The James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History was established by state legislative mandate in 1872 to collect, preserve, skillfully prepare, display, and interpret our state's diverse animal and plant life for scholarly research and teaching and for public appreciation, enrichment, and enjoyment. Its governance belongs, by state legislative designation, to the University...

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