Natural Wonders— Children’s Environmental Art

We love the Bell Museum, we really do. It is old, humble, a little bit musty, and very, very quiet—those carpeted walkways through the exhibit halls are ever so effective at creating a pleasant hush. It’s the perfect antidote to the sense-jangling overload that can be the adult experience at the larger, glitzier family museums in town. Visit the Bell during the week and you may very well have the place to yourself, unless your arrival coincides with a school group. Natural Wonders, the Bell’s current exhibit, gathers environmental art from more than 180 schoolchildren across Minnesota. Large albums contain photographs of all 750 submitted works, in which students explore their views of nature and interpret the natural world through painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and other media. Bell, 10 Church St. S.E., (612) 624-7083, www.bellmuseum.org