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Rooftop ArtPark

Explore nature and art together in Rooftop ArtPark!

Open Memorial Day through early fall

Visit Rooftop ArtPark, where nature and art merge in an immersive outdoor gallery located on the fourth floor of the Museum's roof overlooking downtown St. Paul. The whole family can dip their hands into the stream bed's cool water and create imaginative masterpieces in the sandcove. Children can scamper up the 12-foot tree fort and dance under the shadow dome, mimicking the shadows, shapes and movement of trees and plants.

Rooftop ArtPark is a continually changing gallery experience designed to develop a child's sense of self through creative expression. Every stroke of a paintbrush in a glass studio program or picture inspired by the colors of the fall leaves is a child's way of processing their experiences and sharing them with others.

Check out these books related to the Rooftop ArtPark gallery:

• Don't Step on the Sky: A Handful of Haiku by Miriam Chaikin
• Here Comes the Year by Eileen Spinelli
• In the Space of the Sky by Richard Lewis
• Shadows by April Pulley Sayre