More than 5,000 years and 80,000 pieces of fine and decorative arts comprise the permanent collection at the MIA, including a 2,000-year-old mummy, European masters (Rembrandt, Titian, and Monet, among others), architectural and decorative arts, and a comprehensive photography exhibit. If you're short on time, ask for the "Highlights" brochure to make sure you don't miss the museum's best....
An impressive collection of art, from antiquity to the present, is housed in this splendid, sprawling building.:
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Founded in 1883, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts moved to its present home--an imposing, white-columned, neoclassical structure overlooking Fair Oaks Park--in 1915. The...