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This Day in Minnesota History

January 11, 1907

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The St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters is incorporated, with Charles W. Ames as its first president. The institute's museum is first located in an auditorium, then moved to the Merriam mansion on University Avenue, and finally to downtown St. Paul, where it became Science Museum of Minnesota.

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