Perlman Teaching Museum
Weitz Center for Creativity, 320 Third Street, Northfield
The Perlman Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, in the Weitz Center for Creativity, exhibits works from the College’s collection, traveling exhibitions, and shows curated by Carleton students, faculty, and staff. The Museum also hosts the annual Studio Art comps show.
Flaten Art Museum
Center for Art and Dance, St. Olaf College, Northfield
The Flaten Art Museum, across town at St. Olaf, exhibits regional, national, and international exhibitions, along with faculty and student work. Each spring the museum exhibits the comprehensive work conceived and produced by senior studio majors.
Northfield Arts Guild
304 Division Street, downtown Northfield
The Arts Guild, founded in 1959, is a nonprofit center for the arts, featuring gallery exhibitions, musical, theatrical, dance, and literary performances, and classes for all ages.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third Avenue S., Minneapolis
The MIA is considered one of the nation’s outstanding art museums. Its encyclopedic collections feature everything from the art and artifacts of the ancient world to today’s photography, with special strength in European, American, and Chinese art. The original McKim, Mead, and White building was recently expanded by a new wing designed by Michael Graves. So valuable is the MIA as a resource that faculty members lead one or more field trips there each term.
Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
2025-2026: Present your Carleton ID for free admission to the main gallery. Offer open to current Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Considered one of the nation’s most important museums for modern and contemporary art, including new media and design, the Walker also offers a strong performing arts program. The new addition of 2005, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, doubled the museum space. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is located across the street. In addition to taking students to the museum on course-connected field trips, the department also organizes buses to the Walker for lectures and performances.
Weisman Art Museum
University of Minnesota, 333 E.River Rd, Minneapolis
Housed in a striking stainless steel building designed by Frank Gehry, the Weisman is the teaching museum of the University of Minnesota, with a permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art, and frequent changing exhibitions.
Praxis Photo Arts Center
2601 27th Avenue South, Minneapolis
Praxis Photo Arts Center is a community-based photography center in Minneapolis, offering public darkroom access, hands-on education, and rotating exhibitions of contemporary photographic work. The Gallery presents juried exhibitions, open calls for entry, workshops, and classes for artists, students, and the public.
Northern Clay Center
2424 E.Franklin Ave, Minneapolis
The Northern Clay Center offers frequent exhibitions by contemporary regional, national and international ceramic artists, as well as historical and architectural ceramics; classes and workshops for children and adults at all skill levels; studio space and grants for artists; and a sales gallery representing many top ceramic artists from the region and elsewhere.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis
This is the largest, most comprehensive book arts center in the nation, featuring displays of letterpress printing, bookbinding, papermaking and books as contemporary art forms.
Cannon Valley Makers
300 Railway Street N, Dundas
Cannon Valley Makers is a non-profit makerspace with thousands of tools available to members including laser engravers, CNC routers, a complete woodshop, 3D printers, a full electronics bench, CriCut with heat and mug press, stained glass tools, jewelry making, sewing machines and sergers, leather working, Dremel tools, framing/matting, book and stamp making and more. Memberships include access to tools and many of the materials.
Highpoint Center for Printmaking
912 W. Lake Street, Minneapolis
Highpoint Center for Printmaking offers artistic and educational programs, a cooperative studio, a public gallery, and collaborative publishing opportunities.