MUSEUM
Our facility began as a way of celebrating the ethnicities that migrated to this region at the turn of the 20th Century to find work in the burgeoning iron ore mines and related industry.
Today, the Minnesota Discovery Center Museum is a 33,000 square-foot facility that houses artifacts, examines mining methods, explores regional geology, and hosts traveling exhibits that help illuminate the spirit and sensibilities of the region’s immigrant people and their descendants. Their stories document the development of the “Iron Range”, a region that would become the nation’s largest producer of iron ore. A special area of the museum is dedicated to the life and work of Minnesota's Longest-Serving Governor, Rudy Perpich, an Iron Range native.
