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Doors Open Minneapolis

Published May 9, 2025 | Updated May 9, 2025 | by Kristi | 3 Comments

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Doors Open Minneapolis lets you explore buildings from theaters and houses of worship to government buildings and businesses for a FREE behind-the-scenes look at 100 venues throughout the city.

Doors Open Minneapolis Buildings.

Once again the city of Minneapolis will be opening up their doors to the public. We are excited to see it return and with more amazing places to visit, put this event on your calendar to attend. 

We’ve had a chance to visit some amazing locations around the city and are looking forward to more this year. It’s time to make a plan!

Basilica of Saint Mary Minneapolis MN.

This year it takes place May 17th and 18th. It’s a chance to check out buildings in the city of Minneapolis that are architecturally, culturally, or socially significant. The Doors Open event is free and gives everyone the rare opportunity to see areas and buildings we might not normally see.

The event is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about the City of Minneapolis, its history and how it runs today. It’s also ideal for anyone with an interest in architecture. 

Purcell-Cutts House Minneeapolis.

With so many great venues on the list, we often have a hard time deciding where we want to visit and often end up splitting our visits between Saturday and Sunday.

Some of the things we’ve done is take a tour of The Woman’s Club Of Minneapolis, explored the beautiful Purcell-Cutts House, learned a lot at the City of Minneapolis Eastside Maintenance Facility, made a brief stop in the Minenapolis Traffic Management Center (but it was packed and we left quickly), visited the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, went to the top of Foshay Tower and walked through the Milwaukee Avenue Historic District.

Crushed Aluminium and City of Minneapolis Recycling Center.

Doors Open Minneapolis Venues

There are over 100 venues on the list, but here are just a few to get you started….

  • Manhole Entrance- City of Minneapolis Public Works Surface Water and Sewers Division
  • Basilica of St Mary 
  • Grain Exchange Building
  • Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church
  • Kramarczuk Sausage Co Inc
  • PLUS sooo many more
Milwaukee Avenue Minneapolis.

Doors Open Minneapolis Map and Registration

This year they have added a map and registration for better planning.  These great tools help make the best of planning out where and how you can see everything you want to see for this rare event. 

Foshay Tower Minneapolis.

The list is long and fascinating.  I want to visit ALL of them and hope this event can be an annual thing going forward. 

There are so many great places to visit and just not sure a weekend is long enough to try to fit them all in.  We are sharing this early so you can plan accordingly. 

It also takes a lot volunteers to make this type of event successfully happen. Check out the Volunteer page if you are interested.

Minneapolis Skyline at Sunset.
Photo Credit Doors Open Minneapolis

A few more details from Doors Open Minneapolis about how and why this event is taking place: 

Doors Open Minneapolis is your chance to explore the buildings that tell our city’s story. From theaters to business hubs, sacred spaces to private clubs, sports complexes to engineering wonders, historical gems to not-even-open-yet buildings, Doors Open Minneapolis will give visitors a FREE behind-the-scenes look at over 100 exciting venues.  We’re hoping to enrich experiences by presenting meaningful conversations with many of the people who make these venues the marvels that they are.

Doors Open Minneapolis.
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Kristi

Kristi is married with twin daughters.  She grew up on a small dairy farm, but now lives in the south metro area. She enjoys finding free or thrifty things to do whether they are outings close to home or last minute adventures to far-away places.

Kristi can also be found enjoying estate sales, attempting to garden, volunteering in the wetlands or a favorite thrift store, or maybe just enjoying a good play in one of the many theatre venues in the area.

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  1. Scott Mayer says

    April 11, 2019 at 11:57 am

    Thanks for posting!

    Reply
  2. Cindy Carlsson says

    May 8, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    Yippeee! They do this in Chicago and I’m so excited that Minneapolis is going to do it too. Thanks for posting.

    Reply
  3. Peggy Peltier says

    April 4, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    Would love to see all the great things in Minnesota that are thrifty.

    Reply
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