Science Museum of Minnesota

Sigrid Arnott and David Maki are museum partners at Archaeo-Physics and have just finished up a remote sensing survey (magnetometry, electromagnetic induction and ground penetrating radar) of an archaeological site near New Ulm, Minnesota. Below they describe this process and its finding...

Dakota M. Rowsey, Ph.D., is the museum’s Biology Collections Manager. If he could be any bat in the world, he’d be a golden-crowned flying fox, spending his days munching on figs.

October brings with it tidings of fall in the form of falling leaves, cooling temperatures, pumpkin spice everything, and my personal favorite: all things spooky. Ten-foot tall sk...

Tucked behind our museum galleries sits a large, climate-controlled collections facility. With more than 2 million items illustrating Earth’s history, our anthropology, biology, and paleontology, our collections hold information about our past to help inform our futures. Recently, the

St. Paul, MN — The Science Museum of Minnesota will open Body of Work: Tattoo Culture on Dec. 18, inviting visitors to explore tattooing...

Every tooth has a job. Incisors cut, canines tear, molars grind — and understanding that structure is the first step toward understanding how the choices we make affect it. With support from Delta Dental of Minnesota, educators in the Museum’s Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center (KAYSC) built hands-on activities for elementary and middle schoolers to explore the connection be...