Built on the legacy of the Ball family and company, Minnetrista is a 40-acre museum and garden site located on the White River in Muncie, Indiana.

Today, Minnetrista Museum & Gardens strives to make this “gathering place by the water” an inclusive community resource for all the people of East Central Indiana and beyond.

On the northern bank of the White River, the site that is today Minnetrista existed on the outskirts of Muncie, Indiana throughout the nineteenth century.

In the eighteenth century, part of the Minnetrista site itself was also home to a settlement of the Delaware Nation, who had been systematically driven farther west over many decades because of the advancement of white settlers.

A local natural gas boom in East Central Indiana was then attracting a great deal of industrial business to the region, and the area’s social character appealed to the family.

In partnership with owners Ball Brothers Foundation, Maplewood home is offered as housing for advanced medical students studying at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Comprising more than 17,000 objects and 1,800 linear feet of archival materials, the Heritage Collection includes Ball company records and an extensive holding of Ball-made products.

In addition, the campus is home to several permanent exhibit offerings that tell the histories of life and events on the Minnetrista site, including: Minnetrista offers community centric and family oriented programming throughout the year, from school tours, to painting and glass-working workshops, to three large scale signature events throughout the year.