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American Swedish Institute

American Swedish Institute is a museum in Minneapolis, MN, part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul guide. Cost: under $25.

2600 Park Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407 · Minneapolis, MN

Why you should go…

Swedish newspaper magnate Swan Turnblad completed his turreted, Châteauesque limestone mansion on Park Avenue in 1908, then gave it to the institute he founded in 1929. Today its carved woodwork and ornate Swedish tile stoves frame exhibitions on Nordic art, craft, and migration. The glassy Nelson Cultural Center addition holds galleries, a craft workshop, and FIKA, the institute's New Nordic café. Come for the mansion's storybook rooms, stay for cardamom buns and Scandinavian design finds in the museum shop.

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