AIC's 53rd Annual Meeting

• $29 registration fee - fee covers coordination of the tour
• Adding this event to your schedule does not guarantee you a space. You must add it to your registration via the above "Add to Registration" button.

Join us for this two hour walking tour that will take you to the Mississippi River Waterfront area. The falls has been a place of profound spiritual and cultural significance for Dakota and other Indigenous people for countless generations, yet most people even those raised in Minnesota know nothing of this long history.

The Owámniyomni Okhódayapi organization (formerly Friends of the Falls) will lead this tour of the Falls abd the Upper Lock - along the way you will learn about the Dakota lifeways, the significance of the River, and the Mní Sóta Dakota Tribes’ vision for cultural and environmental restoration.

The tour will start from the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. 100% of this tour fee goes to support the Owámniyomni Okhódayap organization.

Join us for this chance to to take a detailed behind the scenes tours of the MSHS conservation labs.

We will offer two different tours:

1. A Tour of the Book & Paper Conservation Lab, State Archives, and the Library
2. A Tour with an object and textile focus, touring through 3D storage and the Objects Conservation Lab

You can select your tour type during registration. Both toursare two hours in length, and it is not possible to do both or split the time between the tours.

The Purcell-Cutts House, designed and built by William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie, is a masterpiece of Prairie School architecture. The house has been extensively restored and is now a part of the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Experience this architectural wonder in a special behind the scenes tour. The house is only open to the public by private tour.

Due to its historic design, parts of the Purcell-Cutts House are inaccessible to some people with limited mobility. Tours involve two sets of stairs, the restroom is in the basement, and there is no elevator.

It is possible to take both this tour and the Basilica of Saint Mary's Tour.

EverGreene Architectural Arts is in the process of a multi-fascinated restoration of the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis. Take a behind the scenes tour of the building with the conservation professional involved in the project and get a first-hand understanding of the complexity involved.

Attend a demonstration of Traditional stone lithography. View the Selecting and preparing the stone, drawing, processing the drawing and printing it.

Generously offer at no cost by Cole Rogers and paper provided by Hiromi Paper

While complimentary space is limited registration is required. If your plans change and you can no longer attend, please let us know. No shows may be subject to a $20 fee.