Minneapolis II

And here's some more for you. The silver building on the right is the Walker Art Center. It's been referred to as the Ice Cube for the Ice City. It's an amazing modern art museum and it's another of the cultural cornerstones of this great city. The actual Walker has been around for decades, but this new building was just opened in April, 2006.


Across the street from the Walker (and actually part of the museum) is the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The centerpiece at the sculpture garden, the "face", if you will, is the Cherry & Spoon. It's a fountain in the summer. Not so much in the winter.



Crossing the freeway from the sculpture garden and connecting to Loring Park is a steel suspension-type footbridge. It's a masterpiece, really. There's actually a really cool story written on it from one side to another with steel letters attached to the trusses. I've read it, but I couldn't recite it. It's long.


And looking from that bridge to the north you can see the Basilica of St. Mary's - the oldest Basilica in North America. And that's about all I know about it. Oh, except that it's dome is solid copper and they had it on the ground for a whole summer while they repaired and cleaned it. Well, that and they have a huge rock concert on their lawn every summer called the Basilica Block Party. Jesus, Rock-N-Roll. Rock, meet Jesus.