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International Festival of Minnesota

Saint Paul, MN · Arts & Culture

When

April 9–10, 2027

Where

Saint Paul RiverCentre · Saint Paul · MN

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The International Festival of Minnesota gathers more than seventy nations and ethnic communities at the Saint Paul RiverCentre for food, dance, and craft exhibits. It is the direct continuation of the decades old Festival of Nations, relaunched under a new name in 2026. The two day event draws roughly twenty thousand visitors including thousands of students.

The history within reach

• International Festival of Minnesotasame spot

  The International Festival of Minnesota gathers more than seventy nations and ethnic communities at the Saint Paul RiverCentre for food, dance, and craft exhibits.

• The Saint Paul Winter Carnival and its ice palaces0.2 mi

  A New York reporter called St.

• Where Charles Schulz drew the first Peanuts0.2 mi

  Schulz grew up over his father's barber shop in St.

• Alexander Ramsey's house, and the order to drive the Dakota out of Minnesota0.2 mi

  Alexander Ramsey was the first governor of Minnesota Territory and the second governor of the state.

• Landmark Center and the gangster trials0.2 mi

  The old federal courthouse, a pink granite Richardsonian pile, where the Barker-Karpis gang and the Hamm and Bremer kidnappers were tried.