Older and perhaps more dignified than Minneapolis, as befits a State capital, the city has abundant parks and lakes. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts offers drama, concerts and art galleries. The Science Museum features the William L McKnight Omnitheater. The Landmark Center now houses the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Its distinguished history includes the trials of several famous gangsters in the 1930s, when it was the Federal Court House.
The new Landmark Plaza hosts a number of festivals and concerts, as well as a farmer’s market in August; a bronze statue of cartoonist Charles Shultz honors the cartoonist.