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Experience Glensheen Decorated for Christmas at Night – Duluth, MN

by doitinnorth | Dec 20, 2020 | events/locations

TOUR DETAILS

As Minnesota’s Stay Safe pause continues through January 11th, all in-person tour operations will be suspended temporarily. Instead, you can see the mansion virtually with a guide of your choice! There are three different guided virtual tours to chose from. Each tour with a different focus and virtual guide.

VIRTUAL GUIDED TOURS (NEW!)

Purchase Guided VIrtual Tour: Here

Virtual Christmas Tour with Jane
- See the Christmas trees, hidden elves, and the mansion decorated for Christmas virtually. Hear Congdon Christmas stories as Jane, Glensheen’s Official Holiday Ambassador guides you through the most famous rooms of the mansion.
In-Depth Virtual Tour with Milissa
- Have you ever wanted to see what’s inside all of the cabinets and drawers in Glensheen? Well, this is your chance! Explore the nooks, crannies, drawers, cabinets, SECRET COMPARTMENTS, and behind the scenes stories with Glensheen’s Collections Manager, Milissa Brooks-Ojibway.
Exclusive Virtual Tour with Director Dan
- Description coming soon!

SELF-GUIDED 360º VIRTUAL TOUR

In line with the MuseumFromHome movement and many museums across the globe, Glensheen is finding innovative ways to bring the century-old historic home to you on your couch.

In partnership with Explore Minnesota, Visit Duluth, and Alleycat Photography, Glensheen launched a 360º virtual tour experience that is available free of charge.

Virtual tour guests can experience their favorite rooms on the main floor like the famous Breakfast Room, explore the summery-green grounds, and see the second floor. Yes, this means you could make the favorite, “Green Room” or Breakfast Room, your virtual office backdrop – making it feel like your home office while basking in the sunshine among the floor to ceiling green tiles.

START YOUR SELF-GUIDED 360º GLENSHEEN EXPERIENCE

Here are the best ways to experience the 360º Virtual Tour:

Choose your Virtual Tour Enhancement – Virtual Treasure Book or Glensheen App
1. Download & open the Glensheen app on your smartphone (available in the Apple App Store and Google Play)
2. Or print the Virtual Treasure Book
Open the 360º virtual tour on a laptop or desktop
Use the Virtual Treasure Book as an eye-spy game or the Glensheen app for audio snippets to enhance your experience as you virtually explore the mansion

VIRTUAL TREASURE BOOK

This new enhancement was designed after the success of the original in-person Treasure Book that was created in 2015 for guests on tour while exploring the mansion. This is an eye-spy game intended to be used within the Glensheen Virtual Tour. The Virtual Treasure Book makes a virtual tour experience way more fun than most other Virtual Tours… which can get boring pretty quickly. During the COVID-19 closure, the new Treasure Book is available as a free download to enhance the 360º virtual tour experience.

How do you use the Virtual Tour Treasure Book?

Download the Virtual Tour Treasure Book –HERE
Print it off (Be sure to select ‘fit to page’ in your print settings)
Go to Glensheen’s Virtual Tour
Use the Treasure Book as you guide yourself through the mansion

GLENSHEEN APP

Glensheen Mansion launched the tour app through the museum app company, Encurate, in 2019 to enhance the self-guided tour experience. With maps and audio descriptions for nearly every room, the app is a complementary tool to not only the General Admission in-person experience but now also, the Glensheen 360º virtual tour. Feeling a little stir crazy? The app and Glensheen 360º also allows you to explore the grounds and 12-acre estate.

Glensheen at Home Hack: We suggest viewing the 360º virtual tour on a desktop or laptop while using the Glensheen app on a smartphone. With a little bit of manual work, you can connect what you’re seeing on your computer with the descriptions you’re hearing from the app on your phone.

The Glensheen app is a free and available for download by searching “GLENSHEEN” in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Glensheen Mansion

Our mission is simple. It is to Celebrate Preservation.

An Authentic Experience in a world full of manufactured experiences, we have very few opportunities to fully immerse ourselves in authenticity. Glensheen offers one of those rare chances. Come see why Glensheen Mansion, perched on the shore of Lake Superior, is the most visited historic home in Minnesota. Our 12-acre estate features gardens, bridges, and the famous 39-room mansion built with remarkable 20th-century craftsmanship, telling the story of the Duluth region.

Uffda Minnesota: Paul & Babe Visit the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

by doitinnorth | Dec 19, 2020 | art/design

“URBAN ART APPRECIATION” Paul & Babe visit the Minneapolis Sculpture garden and the Cherry and Spoon

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Uffda Minnesota: I am a Minnesota landscape and nature photographer and artist. UFFDA MN celebrates my MN inspired & themed art work. If you like any of my Paul & Babe cartoons, I am offering them as 8 x 10 and 11 x 14 prints. These make the perfect gift for any Minnesotan! Visit: Superiorphotographs

About:

My name is John Caughlan and I am the owner of Superior Photographs. Growing up in northern Minnesota I developed a deep appreciation and love for the outdoors. Then I discovered Minnesota’s North Shore, or should I say it discovered me. I started to backpack, and fueled with curiosity and my need to explore, photography became my creative outlet.

In order to capture that perfect image I fully immerse myself into my surroundings. This means braving blizzards, enduring floods, and camping in sub-zero temperatures. I continually challenge myself and my art. I am also humbled by my heightened awareness of the sobering reality that I am capturing more than just images with my simple camera, but I am capturing a small glimpse of the Creator as revealed through His creation.

Job 37:5-7, “God thunders wonderfully with His voice, He does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’ likewise to the light rain, also to the downpour. He brings all human activity to a stop, so that everyone He has made can know it.”

Photography has given me the opportunity to “stop” and “know it.” I hope my images reveal the character of the Infinite. All of the images on my website are available for purchase.

John Caughlan

”The Cookie is Traditionally Associated with Holiday or Holy Day in Every Land on Earth”

by doitinnorth | Dec 19, 2020 | eat/drink, evergreen

Glensheen Mansion: Another find from the recipe cabinet in the Kitchen! ⁠⠀

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Many of you said that you had this book growing up. Maybe it was your Mom’s or Grandma’s? Did you ever make the Christmas Bells or the Peanut Butter cookies? ⁠⠀
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You’re in for a treat, because those are the two recipes we are featuring today from the recipe cabinet! Let us know if you decide to make them…⁠⠀
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Glensheen Mansion

Our mission is simple. It is to Celebrate Preservation.

An Authentic Experience: In a world full of manufactured experiences, we have very few opportunities to fully immerse ourselves in authenticity. Glensheen offers one of those rare chances. Come see why Glensheen Mansion, perched on the shore of Lake Superior, is the most visited historic home in Minnesota. Our 12-acre estate features gardens, bridges, and the famous 39-room mansion built with remarkable 20th-century craftsmanship, telling the story of the Duluth region.

2020 Holiday Gallery Shop to Celebrating the Richness and Diversity of BIPOC Fiber Artists – Minneapolis

by doitinnorth | Dec 19, 2020 | shop/share

Clockwise: Artwork by Maggie Thompson, Sherri Green, Veronica Gregerson, Chiaki O’Brien, Blanca (Blanx) Dahlin, Shakun Maheshwari

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Textile Center is committed to supporting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and it is dedicating its 2020 Holiday Gallery Shop to celebrating the richness and diversity of BIPOC fiber artists this November and December in its expanded retail Shop.

Featured Artist: Veronica Gregerson – Feltbuddies

After several years away from the art of felting, Twin Cities-based artist Veronica Gregerson relearned it while in quarantine. Since she’d always enjoyed being creative, felting was the next step in bringing her drawings to life. The best thing she likes about felting is seeing her ideas take shape and then finalized with an object you can hold in your hand. She’s gone from adorable things with faces to more complex custom pieces. She enjoys finding the cute in everyday objects.

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Shop safely in person by appointment through December 24, or shop online.

New items added (both in person and online) every week! Shipping and curbside pickup available.

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Plan ahead for on time arrival for the holidays!

Shipping: Order online by Wed, Dec 16 (USPS priority mail recommendations)
Curbside pickup: Order online by Wed, Dec 23

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Getting your online Shop purchases:

LOCAL CURBSIDE PICKUP: Free! Select “Curbside pick up” at checkout. A staff member will contact you to coordinate a pickup time.

SHIPPING (US ONLY): $7 SHIPPING Flat Fee. Select “Ship my Shop items” at checkout. All shipping will be mailed USPS Priority (2-3 days).

Purchasing a gift?

Write your note to the recipient in the “Notes” field in shopping cart – we will include it in the shipment.

We Want to Focus Your Attention on a Climate Crisis Happening Right Now and Right Here in the North

by doitinnorth | Dec 19, 2020 | people/passions

Askov Finlayson

Askov Finlayson: We want to focus your attention on a climate crisis happening right now and right here in the North. Enbridge, a multinational energy transportation company, is building a new pipeline through the state of Minnesota to transport approximately one million barrels of tar sands oil per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. This expansion is not only hazardous to Minnesota’s land and communities, but is also inconsistent with the Paris Climate Agreement. The estimated amount of crude oil that will pass through this line in its 30-year useful life is equivalent in climate impact to building 50 new coal-fired power plants. We need to stop Line 3 and ensure a just transition to renewable energy sources and a sustainable economy.

The pathway of Line 3 cuts across water and land of the Anishinaabe peoples and nations, which actively violates treaty rights. Askov Finlayson wants to thank the Water Protectors and stands in solidarity with the protesters gathering along the Mississippi River in Northern Minnesota to stop construction of this harmful and unnecessary pipeline.We encourage you to join the effort to #StopLine3. Please check out the following resources to learn more, donate to the front lines, join the protests, and make your voice heard.

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For more information and to get involved: stopline3

Call Governor Walz: 651-201-3400
Join the protest: welcomewaterprotectors
To support the effort, consider a donation to one or more of the following organizations.
MN350: mn350
Honor the Earth: honor-the-earth-donation
Giniw Collective (not tax deductible): stoppipeline3

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