The elaborate setting includes booths and cabaret-style seating, jukeboxes playing hits from the 1930s to the present, historic film footage of people dancing, and a nightclub stage. This venue also includes large cut-out figures that young visitors can enjoy dressing in fashions from the 1920s, 1950s or the 1970s. Minnesota musicians will take the stage regularly during the exhibit's five-year run. Other events throughout the upcoming year that spotlight the exhibit include four family festivals and a Musical U program offered in partnership with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The History Center museum is open daily except Monday.
Admission is free.
The Minnesota History Center is at 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. Auxiliary aids and services are available with advance notice. Music in Minnesota is provided by the Mardag Foundation. Lead education support is provided by the Best Buy Children's Foundation. Major support is provided by the Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the Saint Paul Foundation, the F.R. Bigelow Foundation, Conley and Marney Brooks, John and Ruth Huss, and the George W. Wells, Jr., and Mary Cobb Wells Exhibition Fund.