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 gets to hang its art on its own walls again.

The museum will move into a street level suite of galleries in the Pioneer Building this fall, where it will be open for limited hours each week. The partial re-opening will allow the museum to see if the new location will work as a permanent home. Executive Director Kristin Makholm says the location, near the edge of the Lowertown neighborhood, will help the museum become more integrated with the downtown St. Paul community.

museum was forced to leave it's home on Kellogg Boulevard in downtown Saint Paul to make way for redevelopment

. A lack of both funds and leadership forced the museum to put its collection in storage.

Then director Kristin Makholm was brought on board, and ever since she's been working to raise the funds for a new home, while simultaneously keeping the collection alive in people's minds by touring the works in galleries across the state.

Makholm says this move means a great deal for the museum and the community:

Makholm says the new home will allow the museum to reconnect with the public. She says now is the time for the museum to take the next steps toward establishing a new home.

The historic Pioneer Building was once home to the Pioneer Press.

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