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Rochester Public Library

101 Second Street SE Rochester, MN 55904 (507) 282-8000 The Rochester Public Library offers exhibits, films, and children’s films.

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At the Plummer Building

Mayo Clinic Art & Architecture Tour

Mayo Clinic offers an Art & Architecture Tour, highlighting the original art which is on display throughout the clinic. Much of the art has been donated by former patients and benefactors.The tour is offered Monday through Friday from 1:30-2:30pm.

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Painting by Fran Haddy

SEMVA (South Eastern Minnesota Visual Artists)

The SE Minnesota Visual Artists gallery features artwork for sale, including paintings, photography, pottery, glass, jewelry, woodworking, sculpture, folk art, wearable art

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Phaedra Robinson, January 2006

Cornucopia Art Center

Cornucopia Art Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota, is a place "where art norishes both body and soul." The center accomplishes this through their constant strive for artistic excellence

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Callaway Galleries

Callaway Galleries offers of fine art and crafts featuring works in glass, metal, paper, wood, clay and fiber. Callaway Galleries is conveniently located in the subway level of the Marriott

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Dancing

Fred Astaire Dance Studio

Fred Astaire Dance Studio invites you to discover the beauty of dance. The studio has developed a distinctive technique of teaching dance called the Conceptual Method of Teaching. They state that this method is the easiest, most fun

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Dahl Dance Center

Dahl Dance Center offers dance classes for youth and adults in Ballroom, Latin, West Coast Swing, Salsa, Argentine Tango, and Ladies Dance Fitness Programs. The studio provides adult dance instruction in private and group settings for recreation or competition.

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Southern Minnesota Chapter of USA Dance

The Southern Minnesota Chapter of USA Dance invites you to attend their ballroom dance on the 2nd Friday of each month. The chapter was established 15 year ago.

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Blue Moon Ballroom

The Blue Moon Ballroom offers public dances, private rentals, and beginner dance lessons. Dance to live music or the Blue Moon state of the art music system.

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Museums

Olmsted County History Center

Features interpretive displays of the area's history, including the traditional 1880's one-room Hadley Valley School House, the 1860s William Dee Log Cabin, and a research library.

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Heritage House

Located in Rochester’s 1856 Town Square, in Central Park, this restored 19th century home displays a middle-class Midwestern family’s way of life over 125 years ago.

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Rochester Art Center

The Rochester Art Center is on it's way to becoming a premier center for contemporary art. Exhibitions feature works by numerous contemporary

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Quarry Hill Nature Center

Nature Center offers a wide variety of programs, workshops, classes, and special events regarding information on local wildlife. It also has many resources including a large hands-on

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Mayowood Mansion

Mayowood is the former home of Doctors Charles H. and Charles W. Mayo and was home to three generations of the Mayo family. The 38 rooms are filled with furniture, antiques

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Theater

Mantorville Theatre Company

Mantorville Theatre Company offers four outstanding melodramas in the summer season, running mid-June through mid-September. During the rest of the year, they present four additional plays geared toward family fun and seasonal levity.

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Rochester Civic Theatre

Entering its 55th season, Rochester Civic Theatre has grown into an award-winning, high quality artistic resource that provides adult and children's productions, educational programs, touring shows and social services support for nearly 50,000 people annually.

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Kaley Dahle rehearses her play about her battle with bone cancer at RCTC's Hill Theatre.

Rochester Community and Technical College Theatre

RCTC Theater Department and students perform one production each semester including a fall production for the general public and a children's production in the spring.

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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, located in downtown Saint Paul, is Minnesota's premier performing arts center. The Ordway features a variety of arts, including musicals,

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Children's Theatre Company

The Children's Theatre Company (CTC) strives to "create extraordinary theatre experiences that educate, challenge and inspire young people." The CTC was founded in 1965 as The Moppet Players. The organization produced unique dramas, dance and theatre for kids. Later that same year, The Moppet Players relocated to

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