Best Free Midwest Attractions: Minnesota

Free art in the Twin Cities

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum Frank Gehry's gleaming silver building (left) on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River houses the University of Minnesota's art. The museum has 17,000 works and is known for its collections of American modernism, ceramics, Mimbres pottery and Korean furniture.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts The newly expanded museum's holdings include a renowned Asian art collection among more than 80,000 works that span 5,000 years of human history.