West Maka Ska, Minneapolis
The Bakken Museum
The Bakken Museum
This lakeside museum devoted to electricity and invention runs a friendly calendar of adult and family programming, from the monthly Bakken Book Club reading science-minded titles to Discovery Days that go deep on a single STEM theme. After-hours events like Bakkenalia open the place up with curator-led vault tours of Earl Bakken's collection. It is small, quirky, and hands-on in the best way.