Bell Museum

When the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum moved to its new St. Paul location in 2018, it kept its world-renowned dioramas and its planetarium focus. It gained new interactive exhibits about the natural world, a larger touch and see lab area, and to much acclaim, a life-size woolly mammoth.

Admission: $12 adults, $10 seniors, $9 youth; University of Minnesota students get in free. Planetarium shows are a separate charge, but you can bundle gallery and planetarium admission.