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Mill City Museum

Mill City Museum
Mill City Museum-20070704.jpg
Established 2003
Location 704 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Coordinates 44°58′46″N 93°15′26″W / 44.97938°N 93.25711°W / 44.97938; -93.25711
Type History Museum
Director Laura Salveson
Public transit access Bus Routes 3, 7 and 22, METRO Blue Line, METRO Green Line
Website

http://www.millcitymuseum.org/

Mill City Museeum
Washburn A Mill 2014.jpg
The Washburn A Mill Complex from the Stone Arch Bridge
Location 1st St. S. at Portland Ave.
Minneapolis
Built 1879
Part of Saint Anthony Falls Historic District (#71000438)
NRHP Reference # 83004388
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 4, 1983
Designated NHL May 4, 1983

http://www.millcitymuseum.org/

Mill City Museum is a Minnesota Historical Society museum in Minneapolis. It opened in 2003 built in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River. The museum focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used water power from Saint Anthony Falls.

The mill complex, dating from the 1870s, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is part of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District and within the National Park Service's Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.

The museum features exhibits about the history of Minneapolis, flour milling machinery, a water lab and a baking lab. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the multistory Flour Tower, where visitors sit in the cab of a freight elevator and are taken to different floors of the building, each designed to look like a floor in a working flour mill. Voices of people who worked in the Washburn A Mill are heard throughout the show. Visitors exit on the 8th floor, where extant equipment is interpreted by staff, and are then led to the ninth-floor observation deck to view St. Anthony Falls.

The Gold Medal Flour sign still shines at night atop the adjoining grain elevator. Across the river, the former competitor Pillsbury A Mill is topped with a sign reading "Pillsbury's Best Flour."

The work of local artists is featured throughout the building. Pieces by JoAnn Verburg, Tom Maakestad, Kim Lawler, Kathleen Richert, Paul Wrench and Becky Schurmann include murals, an art glass collage, a 15-foot (4.6 m) Bisquick box, and sculpture.


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