Opening of A Mirror of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910 June 24, 2007

"A Mirror of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910" opens and special exhibition admission is free all day. Tickets are required to regulate museum traffic.

Nordic Music all afternoon in Target Court

• Make flower head-dresses and gardlands for the May Pole Dance. For all ages, in Wells Fargo Community Room with door open to Target Park. • 3:30 p.m.--Procession from Wells Fargo Room into Target Plaza accompanied by traditional Nordic musicians. Music and dancing in Target Park from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., led by Nordic community leaders and musicians in traditional Swedish folk clothing.

2 p.m. in Pillsbury Auditorium
Torsten Gunnarsson will present an overview of Nordic landscape painting during the second half of the nineteenth century, following the themes of the exhibition: Nordic Sublime, Close to Nature, In the Open Air, Evocative Landscape, and Landscapes of the Mind. Gunnarsson is the Director of Collections at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and the lead organizer of the exhibition.
Admission to this event is $5, FREE to MIA members. Tickets can be ordered in advance and picked up on the day of the lecture, from the Visitor and Membership Desk at the Third Avenue Entrance.

For lecture and film tickets, call (612) 870-6323.