Theater Mu is Minnesota’s first professional Asian American theater company. Since its founding in 1992, it has impacted both local and national theater landscapes, helping to create a pan-Asian community of artists and presenting world-premiere productions that illuminate Asian American experiences.
The Chief Theatre, the primary movie theater in downtown Bemidji, opened in 1937 and operated until 1991. In 1992, it became the home of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse as well as the venue of Bemidji Communty Theatre.
Carte-de-visite featuring paintings by Anton Gág, Christian Heller, and Alexander Schwendinger in the interior of the Cathedral of Holy Trinity in New Ulm, ca. 1903.