September 14, 2024 – June 30, 2027 | Gallery 256 | Free Exhibition „Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection“ includes more than 200 gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s
Promised Gift of Alice S.
April 22, 2017 – April 15, 2018 | Grand Salon, G318 | Free Exhibition In the 1700s, European cities witnessed a gradual but profound shift in daily life: people stayed up later and partied harder into the night. Many of their nocturnal soirees were private affairs, hosted in elite homes by invitation only
Hôtel de la Bouëxière, 1733-1737 Painted and gilt wood, plaster, marble and iron Gift
May 12, 2015 – May 29, 2016 | G328 | Free Mia created the MacFarlane Memorial Room in the mid-1970s to display hand-painted Chinese export wallpapers, made in the late 1700s or early 1800s and given to the museum by Mabel MacFarlane in 1967. The room is usually furnished with Federal-style American furniture, given to the museum by the MacFarlane family, and represents a parlor in the home of a wealthy New England family. For this special installation focusing on the wallpaper, we have removed the furnishings and invite visitors to come inside, sit down, and let their eyes wander over the wallpaper’s many lively scenes of a Chinese New Year festival in a noble family’s garden. This project is part of Living Rooms, an initiative to present Mia’s historic interiors and decorative arts collections in new ways. Generous support for this project provided by the MacFarlane Memorial Room Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation. Generous support for Living Rooms provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and donors at the 2014 Mia Gala.
content Chinese, for export Wallpaper, late 1700s or early 1800s Pigments on paper Gift
VAN DERLIP FUND, AND GIFT OF FUNDS FROM RUTH AND BRUCE DAYTON, SIT INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES
July 19, 2014 – April 19, 2015 | Galleries 315 and 316 | Free Exhibition Artists have long been drawn to the complicated murk of murder, from the biblical and quranic stories of Cain and Abel (the first murderer and first victim), to the horrific deaths of Jesus and early Christian martyrs, to gut-wrenching accounts of modern-day homicide. Murder is inevitably traumatic, a tragic narrative unfolding from the crime to its consequences. It is this story, whether arising from persecution, criminal intent, or a depraved sense of passion, that artists find so intriguing. Today, with murder constantly in the news—if it bleeds, it leads—and saturating our entertainment, from video games to mystery novels, we may be desensitized to its frightening reality
Honoré Daumier French, 1808-1879 Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril, 1834 Lithograph Gift
September 20, 2025 – June 28, 2026 | Galleries 251, 252, and 253 | Free Exhibition Yoshida Hodaka (1926–1995) was born into a family of artists. He was the second son of Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), a leading Western-style artist in Japan during the early 20th century
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture; formerly given to the Center
October 21, 2017 – July 1, 2018 | Gallery 375 | Free Exhibition George Morrison (1919–2000) constantly explored new ways to translate nature and personal experience. Born near Grand Marais, Minnesota, Morrison trained in Minneapolis before moving to New York in 1943
Morrison American (Grand Portage Anishinaabe), 1919-2000 Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas Gift
September 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020 | Target Gallery | General Admission $20; My Mia Member $16; Investor+ Free; Youth 17 and Under Free Tickets on sale now. General Admission $20 My Mia Member $16 Investor+ Free Youth 17 and Under Free Mia’s companion exhibition to „Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975“ features drawings, textiles, video, photography, and installations made by artists from the Southeast Asian diaspora who have been deeply engaged with the impact and legacy of the American War in Vietnam. The artists reflect on migration, memory, the effect of violence on the landscape and on communities, healing, and trauma. The Twin Cities is home to a large Southeast Asian population, many of whom arrived in the wake of the war
, 1972, 22, From the 50-panel series Hmong Migration, 1993-2001, Oil on canvas, Gift
November 16, 2024 – August 31, 2025 | Gallery 315, 316 | Free Exhibition Otto Dix (1891–1969) served in the German army during World War I. For three years, he led a machine-gun unit and experienced the horror of trench warfare firsthand
Van Derlip Fund and Gift of funds from Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison and the Regis
