Information and locations of Veteran Memorials, Monuments, Museums and Statues around the state of Minnesota.
Museums and Historic Places
American Wings Air Museum
AWAM is dedicated to restoring and promoting the role of military aviation and the technological advances benefiting humanity. The AWAM museum offers you both indoor and outdoor displays
Fort Snelling Military Museum
The Museum primarily restores and maintains historical American military vehicles, including tanks and armor. Dedicated to the remembrance of veterans of all wars and the preservation of the military equipment they used.
Historic Fort Snelling
The story of Fort Snelling is the story of the development of the U.S. Northwest. While surrounded today by freeways and a large urban population, Fort Snelling was once a lonely symbol of American ambition in the wilderness.
Minnesota Air Guard Museum
The Minnesota Air Guard Museum is an authorized USAF Air Park of the 133rd Airlift Wing and supported by the Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation. It was founded by a group of men and women who were determined to preserve this part of the rich aviation heritage of Minnesota.
Minnesota Military Museum
Located at Camp Ripley, Little Falls, MN. Nowhere in Minnesota are the experiences of military men and women so vividly captured and interpreted as at the Minnesota Military Museum. The museum aims to enhance public understanding of how armed conflicts and military institutions have shaped our state and national experience. The museum also functions as a major repository in Minnesota for historical artifacts and records. Indoor and outdoor exhibits depict the stories and contributions of Minnesotans who served in all branches of service or on the home front, in time of peace and war, from our early frontier years to the present.
www.minnesotanationalguard.org/campripley/SpecFeatures/muse1.htm
Minnesota Wing Commemorative Air Force
The Minnesota Wing is an active WWII aircraft museum with seven aircraft, a growing museum and numerous vehicles.
Wings of the North
Our mission is to preserve and present aviation history. We arose from the vacuum created when Planes of Fame Museum relocated to California. In its wake, several volunteers chose to ignore this setback and form a new museum. In less than six months, this group has coordinated Mustang Roundup ‘98, a major flying event. We’ve begun the process of recording veteran’s personal histories and acquired hangar space for the group’s meetings. Goals for the near future include acquiring a project airplane, creating school outreach programs and continuing the tradition of quality public events.
Memorials, Monuments and Statues
Blue Earth - Nicollet County
The memorial is located on Stoltzman Road in Mankato.
Freeborn County
This Veterans Memorial is currently under proposal.
Lyon County
No location information is available. A picture is available on the Lyon CVSO page.
Mankato
A Korean War memorial is located in the center of Mankato next to the library. The memorial includes the names of all the Minnesotans who lost their life in Korea.
Northfield
Information on the Northfield Area Veteran's Memorial, Riverside Lions Park.
Rochester
The Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial consists of several parts:
www.soldiersfieldmemorial.org
- Flags: nine flags - American flag, Minnesota state flag, six branch of service flags, and a MIA/POW flag.
- The Wall of Remembrance: contains the names of veterans within a fifty-mile radius of Rochester who were killed in action or died from injuries sustained while in service. (2,372 names)
- The Walk of Remembrance: contains the name, branch of service and conflict or date entered service, of a veteran, living or dead, on a 2” x 8” x 20” granite brick. (4,590 bricks - pavers)
- Four circular walls: shows graphics from the Civil War to the Gulf War on the outside, and written history on the inside.
- Fifty trees: one tree for each state in the union.
Saint Paul - Minnesota State Capitol Complex
There are many memorials at the State Capital Complex. They will be listed here soon but in the meantime, here is information on the one under construction. It is the World War II memorial.
Stillwater
Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial - It was designed to evoke a reflective mood rather than make a political statement. It was designed to express honor and remembrance, while acknowledging valor and service, and affirming the need to grieve as well as to experience an earlier time of innocence before the war. It was designed also to remind us that the price of war is high: young men and women die, and others have their lives forever altered.
Veterans Memorial of Stillwater - On Memorial Day 2004, the St. Croix Valley made a permanent and lasting statement of thanks to its Veterans: we dedicated a Memorial that honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice, those who served honorably in the past, those serve today, and future service men and women.
Winona
There is a Korean War Memorial monument located at Veterans Memorial Park.
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