About the Walker
Welcome to the Walker Art Center, a multidisciplinary arts institution located in the heart of Minneapolis.
More Than a Museum
The Walker presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. We are guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace, while connecting people through dialogue and shared experiences with the artists and ideas of today.
We engage communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Our multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden—one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
Recognized for an ambitious program and growing collection of more than 15,500 works, we embrace emerging art forms and amplify the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe.
Working Across Disciplines
Visual Arts curates shows and experiences that explore the big ideas of our time, while supporting artists making important work in the present. Performing Arts presents boundary-pushing works of drama, dance, and music. Moving Image explores the outer reaches of film as a medium in our Cinema and Mediatheque. Design keeps the Walker on the progressive edge of aesthetics through exhibitions, events, and initiatives. Public Engagement, Learning, and Impact dissolves the boundary between art and audience, garden and gallery, museum and metropolis.
Together, our departments activate our belief that art is for everybody.
Exhibitions
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Screenings
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Performances
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Talks and Workshops
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Annual Report
Learn about our impact and insights through the Walker Art Center annual reports.
Jobs and Opportunities
Be part of the Walker Art Center team, where creativity and community come together to inspire change.
Land Acknowledgment
The Walker is located on the contemporary, traditional, and ancestral homelands of the Dakota people. This site, which was once an expanse of marshland and meadow, holds meaning for Dakota, Ojibwe, and Indigenous people from other Native Nations who live in the community today.