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Give your day a jolt!
Book a group tour of The Bakken Museum today.

For the price of regular admission, your group can hear the stories behind our unique exhibits and have a hair-raising experience with a knowlegeable, entertaining tour guide.

Tours can be adjusted to complement your group’s interests.

On your tour you may:
• Make songs using your heart’s rhythm and more in our latest exhibit, Electric Heart.
• Feel what it’s like to be a wire by conducting electricity through your bodies.
• Create and see more than 30,000 volts of electricity travel through air.
• Hear the natural electricity generated by fish and discover how they use it.
• Explore old medical devices and learn about the medical uses of electricity and magnetism.
• Experience electrifying fun like Ben Franklin did while play with 200-year-old static electricity toys.
• Enjoy a multi-media show that brings Frankenstein’s creature to life.
• Find herbs, shrubs and trees used as medicine in The Bakken Museum’s outdoor medicinal garden.
• Engage in hands-on experiments.

The Bakken Museum is located at the corner of West Calhoun Parkway and 36th Street on the west shore of Lake Calhoun. Stop at Lake Calhoun for a picnic and freetime in the sun before or after your tour (not included).

Minimum: 10 people. Pre-registration required.
Call 612-926-3878 ext. 219.

 



The Bakken
A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life

3537 Zenith Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55416-4623, USA

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Tele: 612-926-3878   Fax:  612-927-7265

Museum Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 to 5
Thursdays 10 am to  8pm 
Closed Major Holidays
Library Hours: Monday - Friday 9 to 4:30

Admission: $7 Adults; $5 Students & Seniors; Children 3 and under are FREE!

© The Bakken Updated: March 7, 2007

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