Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Minneapolis, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 5.8 km
Ascend 171 m
Descend 175 m

Experience Minneapolis in United States in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Minneapolis

Sight 1: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

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The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. It is located near the Walker Art Center, which operates it in coordination with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. It reopened June 10, 2017, after a reconstruction that resulted with the Walker and Sculpture Garden being unified as one 19-acre campus. It is one of the largest urban sculpture gardens in the country, with 40 permanent art installations and several other temporary pieces that are moved in and out periodically.

Wikipedia: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (EN)

414 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Walker Art Center

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The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the U.S.: together with the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Cowles Conservatory, it has an annual attendance of around 700,000 visitors. The museum's permanent collection includes over 13,000 modern and contemporary art pieces, including books, costumes, drawings, media works, paintings, photography, prints, and sculpture.

Wikipedia: Walker Art Center (EN), Website

259 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church

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Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church is a church across the Virginia Triangle from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its address is 511 Groveland Avenue.

Wikipedia: Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church (EN), Website

420 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

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Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis is one of two cathedrals in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. The church was founded in 1858 and designated as a cathedral in 1941. Its current building dates from 1910. In 2020, it reported 764 members, 315 average attendance, and $1,021,278 in plate and pledge financial support.

Wikipedia: St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral (Minneapolis) (EN), Website

368 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Loring Park

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Loring Park is a park in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Wikipedia: Loring Park (EN)

1815 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 6: Foshay Tower

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The Foshay Tower, now the W Minneapolis – The Foshay hotel, is a skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Modeled after the Washington Monument, the building was completed in 1929, months before the stock market crash in October of that year. It has 32 floors and stands 447 feet (136 m) high, which made it the tallest building in the Midwest for 48 years. The antenna mast extends the total height of the structure to 607 feet (185 m). The building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, is an example of Art Deco architecture. Its address is 821 Marquette Avenue, although it is set well back from the street and is actually closer to 9th Street than Marquette.

Wikipedia: Foshay Tower (EN)

1356 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 7: Historic Shed

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The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed, now officially named The Depot, is a historic railroad depot in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. At its peak, the station served 29 trains per day. Following decline, the station was closed and eventually adapted into various other uses.

Wikipedia: Minneapolis station (Milwaukee Road) (EN)

838 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 8: Gold Medal Park

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Gold Medal Park is a 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) park in the Downtown East neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Opened in May 2007, the park was designed by landscape architect Tom Oslund and is owned by the city of Minneapolis. It takes its inspiration from the Native American mounds found throughout Minnesota, and its name from Gold Medal flour, a product of General Mills. It consists of a 32-foot-high (9.8 m) mound, reached by a spiral walkway rising out of a green lawn with 300 trees. The park, just east of the Guthrie Theater, gives the Mill District neighborhood some rare green space.

Wikipedia: Gold Medal Park (EN)

370 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Guthrie Theater

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The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions among Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler. Disenchanted with Broadway, they intended to form a theater with a resident acting company, to perform classic plays in rotating repertory, while maintaining the highest professional standards.

Wikipedia: Guthrie Theater (EN), Website

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