Tour Burnsville, MN Where Exquisite Quaint Corners Await Your Discovery

Burnsville Convention & Visitors Bureau
101 W Burnsville Pkwy
Ste 150B
Burnsville, MN 55337
P: 952 898-5646
F: 952 487-1777
800 521-6055

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Burnsville Convention & Visitors Bureau

This student adventure combines learning and fun for a memorable tour.

Some Kids Have All the Fun!

Day 1:

Visit the Science Museum of Minnesota and Omnitheater filled with exciting and fun hands-on “minds-on” exhibits in anthropology, biology, geography, paleontology and technology. The Omnitheater’s huge domed screen surrounds moviegoers for the experience of a lifetime.

Next, stop at The Raptor Center for an up-close experience with live raptors. Enjoy a one-hour presentation designed for your group’s age. The presentation could include raptor biology and natural behavior, critical environmental-impact issues, factors that influence how raptors and humans survive and interact and more. Tour the facility, where you will meet live raptors, including falcons, hawks, owls and bald eagles and hear their exciting stories.

Check in to your Burnsville Hotel and then enjoy dinner at Old Country Buffet.

Depart for Mall of America to spend the evening at the nation’s largest retail and entertainment center. The Mall offers student groups several fun options including a Scavenger Hunt. Nickelodeon Universe, located in the center of the complex, will provide your group with 27 fun-filled rides and attractions. Underwater Adventures will allow you to meet sharks, rays and schools of other exotic creatures face-to-face as you travel on a moving walkway through a 300-foot crystal clear tunnel.

Day 2:

Today, visit Mill City Museum, an eight-story museum. Through hands-on, multi-sensory exhibits, student groups learn about the "Flour Milling Capitol of the World." The Flour Tower takes students on an eight-story elevator ride while they watch a media show on mill workers in the 1940s to the 1960s. In the Water Lab students don rain gear and learn about the river's role in the logging and lumber industry. Great smells waft from the Baking Lab where students grind wheat, bake bread and package food.

Next stop is The Bakken Museum offering student groups a self-guided museum visit with interactive exhibits to captivate inquiring minds or high-quality, hands-on science workshop based on static electricity, batteries and magnetism. Join the spirit of Benjamin Franklin in the static electricity party room, see and hear electric fish, discover medical magnetism and more. The Frankenstein exhibit is a great enhancement for the teaching of science, history, literature and culture.

Then, stop at the Northern Clay Center for a free tour of the facility and to learn about the process of making ceramic art, including the techniques and equipment. Tours include a history of the Clay Center and its mission, and guided walks through the current exhibitions, classrooms, glazing areas, studio spaces and kiln room, and sales gallery. See work from various artists and gain an understanding of the process of creating and firing clay objects. An artist demonstration on the potter’s wheel is available for a charge.

Or, visit The Loft Literary Center offers student groups a tour of the building where they will observe people at work writing, art work throughout the building, discussion groups in progress and more. Schedule a writing workshop with an author, or a book discussion with an author for a charge.

Then, it’s off to the WAY-COOL Cooking School for a cooking class that teaches students life-long skills to ignite their creativity, build self-esteem and math skills, prepare them for parenting. Learning has never tasted so good! This creative learning experience is complete with teachers who design a special class specific to age group and needs.

Finish the day at Burnsville’s new Grand Slam U.S.A. where student groups enjoy miniature golf, various batting cages, a video arcade, bumper cars, a two-story laser tag room, snack bar and more. Or, for great exercise and low-cost fun, enjoy roller skating at Skateville in Burnsville. Student groups are welcome and there are a few different programs to choose from.

Day 3:

Then, it’s off to the Minnesota Zoo, one of the nation’s best according to wildlife experts. Your students will see over 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in their natural habitat exhibits. Enjoy the climate-controlled monorail ride, Discovery Bay’s fantastic dolphin show and shark reef exhibit and estuary tide pool and hands-on interactive Clubhouse Cove. Have lunch at the Zoo with Zoo bucks.

Tonight, stop for pizza and more at one of Burnsville’s restaurants and then enjoy a movie or an IMAX film at one of the 15-screens in the new CineMagic Atlantis Theatre. The theatre has the best and latest amenities available to the industry including wall to wall screens, high rise stadium style seating with separate areas for adults and couples, luxurious high back rocker seating, and Dolby EX digital surround sound in all of the auditoriums.

Day 4:

Depart for home with fun-tastic experiences from your tour "Some Kids Have All the Fun!"