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State School Orphanage Museum


State School Orphanage Museum
540 West Hills Circle
Owatonna, MN
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #2 of 11 attractions in Owatonna
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Traveler Description: Life in this home for children from the 1880s to the 1940s is depicted through exhibits of artifacts and narrative documents.
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Attraction type: Specialty museum
Address: 540 West Hills Circle Owatonna, MN
Tel: 507-451-2149

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5 of 5 stars
Toofaraway 92 contributions
Chillicothe, Ohio
Oct 17, 2008

We visited the State School Orphanage Museum on September 24, 2008. The museum is housed in a large brick building, which apparently also contains various offices for the City of Owatonna. The museum is set up in several hallways of the building, and the exhibits do an excellent job of presenting the life that residents of the orphanage faced. Some... more

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State School Orphanage Museum Address

540 West Hills Circle, Owatonna, MN
Tel: 507-451-2149