FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. - The natural history of Minnesota will be on full display once again this summer when the Bell Museum opens in its new location at the intersection of Larpenteur and Cleveland ...

The Bell Museum, a unit of the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources, will be saying “goodbye” to Executive Director Denise Young on April 21 and welcoming in ...

The revamped Bell Museum is ready for its close-up, taking visitors through an upgraded and interactive view of nature. Set to open on July 13, the natural history museum previewed its new building ...

On Tuesday, July 19, the Bell Museum welcomed a traveling installation, “Gaia,” as a part of the museum’s 150th anniversary lineup. “Gaia,” which measures 23 feet in diameter, is an inflatable and ...

The Bell Museum has a great origins story. It began in 1872 as a “one-room cabinet of curiosities.” Today, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has a sleek, fascinating home on ...

Lansing Shepard is co-author of a fascinating new book celebrating the 150 th anniversary of the Bell Museum on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. Together with Don Luce, Barbara ...

The children and their families sat down and looked up as the lights dimmed. “We’re actually going to go out in space,” said a disembodied voice. So, while their bodies remained at the recent summer ...

Susan Weller spent Christmas Eve 2008 at the Bell Museum of Natural History. But the first-year museum director didn’t go to catch up on work or for a holiday party. A pipe had burst on the third ...

The woolly mammoth was newly crafted by hand in Minnesota and will be part of Pleistocene Minnesota, the Bell’s first new diorama in more than 60 years. Minnesota news you can count on. From local ...

A replica of the Liberty Bell is seen Thursday, March 30, 2023, at the Liberty Bell Museum in Allentown. The museum is closing permanently after Saturday. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) A Pennsylvania ...

Artist Donald Thomas gets an upclose view of the "Museum of the Moon" installation May 20, 2019 at the Bell Museum in St. Paul. INTERVIEWER: You know, a trip to the bell museum in Saint Paul is ...

Liberty Bell Museum Director Rev. Joshua Knappenberger on Thursday, June 30, 2022, shows the marker from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission that will be dedicated in a ceremony at noon ...