Science Museum of Minnesota

The Science Museum of Minnesota is a museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota, focused on topics in technology, natural history, physical science, and mathematics education.

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Opening hours:
10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Friday and Saturday: 10:00 AM—8:00 PM
Type: Museum
Description: science museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also known as: “new.smm.org” and “SMM”
Address: 120 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN 55102

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and Rice Park.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Arts center

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The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, hosts a variety of performing arts, such as touring Broadway musicals, orchestra, opera, and cultural performers, and produces local musicals. Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is situated 820 feet north of Science Museum of Minnesota.

Rice Park

Park

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Rice Park is a public park in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Features of the park include a fountain, a bandstand, sculptures of characters from the Peanuts cartoons and an ice-rink during the winter months.

Roy Wilkins Auditorium

Theater building

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Roy Wilkins Auditorium is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in St. Paul, Minnesota. Designed by the renowned municipal architect Clarence W. Wigington, it was built in 1932 as an arena extension to the existing St. Roy Wilkins Auditorium is situated 840 feet north of Science Museum of Minnesota.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Paul and Lowertown Historic District.

Saint Paul

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Saint Paul is the capital city and the second largest city of the US state of Minnesota. Along with the slightly larger Minneapolis it forms the urban core of the Twin Cities region, the third largest metropolis in the Midwest.

Lowertown Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Lowertown Historic District is a historic district in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. This 16-block warehouse and wholesaling district comprises 37 contributing properties built between the 1870s and1920.

Summit-University

Suburb

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Summit-University is a neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that stretches roughly from University Avenue in the north, Lexington Parkway to the west, Summit Avenue to the south and to the east along John Ireland Boulevard, Kellogg Boulevard and Marion Street.

Science Museum of Minnesota

Categories: science museum, nonprofit organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: City of Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.94254° or 44° 56′ 33″ north

Longitude

-93.09883° or 93° 5′ 56″ west

Elevation

722 feet (220 metres)

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

86P8WWV2+2F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 54581755

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

7213915

Wikidata ID

Q3777245

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Science Museum of Minnesota” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Museu de la Ciència de Minnesota”
Catalan: “Science Museum of Minnesota”
Chinese: “明尼苏达科学博物馆”
Chinese: “明尼蘇達科博館”
French: “Musée de sciences de Minnesota”
German: “Wissenschaftsmuseum Minnesota”
German: “Wissenschaftsmuseum von Minnesota”
Slovak: “Science Museum of Minnesota”
Swedish: “Science Museum of Minnesota”

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