Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden guided free tour!

Join us for a great opportunity to have a FREE outdoor guided tour of the Walker Sculpture Garden! Please join us for another exciting tour with one of our knowledgeable and talented guides, Billy. You are welcome if you have toured with us before and we welcome all new participants too!

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is one of the crown jewels of the city’s park system, uniting two of Minnesota’s most cherished resources—its greenspace and its cultural life. The 11-acre site, home to the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry, showcases more than 40 works from the Walker Art Center’s renowned collection.

We will learn about the history of the Sculpture Garden beyond the tidbits I am posting here, and learn about the sculptures in the Garden.

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden dates back to the early 20th century. Its land was donated to the Park Board in 1906 by Thomas Lowry, whose home was just up the hill, where the Walker Art Gallery and Walker Art Center would later be built. This acreage was just a small slice of the total land donated for parks over the years by Lowry, a real-estate magnate and head of the Minneapolis Street Railway Co. (later the Twin Cities Rapid Transit System).

Have you gone past the Sculpture Garden tons of times and always wanted to know more about it? This is your chance!!

Note that in case of rain, the tour will be held inside the Walker Art Center to learn about some of the indoor sculptures there.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you sign up, please put this on your calendar right away, and if a conflict arises, please be sure to update your reservation at least a week before to give another interested person the chance to use the limited number of spots allowed by the venue. There are no last minute cancellations! Please make sure you check comments on this event frequently for notices and reply promptly to host inquiries or confirmation requests.