During her tenure, attendance doubled, digital access was emphasized, and social justice and equity programs were adopted.

[8][9] In October 2019, Katherine Luber, formerly of the San Antonio Museum of Art, was named as the new director and president of Mia.

Over 450 members of the city’s art community, including David Lynch and Dyani White Hawk, signed an open letter of support in response to the Cozzolino's firing.

[11][12][13] The museum features an encyclopedic collection of approximately 100,000 objects[14] spanning 5,000 years of world history.

Its collection includes paintings, photographs, prints and drawings, textiles, architecture, and decorative arts.

The statue shows a winged man holding a sword vertically, tip up, and standing on the back of a snarling beast.

The statue did not fit with the ideals of the ruling National Socialist party; it was vandalized and condemned as degenerate art.

[27] Target Park, which sits behind the museum, contains several contemporary statues, including an untitled work in bronze (c. 1968) by Pietro Consagra, Samba in African granite (1993) by Richard Erdman, and L'arbre de vie in stainless steel and pigment (20th century), designed by Jean Willy Mestach and manufactured by Michael Chowen.

There are wide lines cut into the steel roof of the pavilion so that when the viewer stands inside, the labyrinth can be viewed by looking up.

Similar Mitoraj sculptures can be found at other public sites, including Market Square in Kraków, Poland, and Citygarden in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.

[33] Bruce Dayton, a life trustee of the institute since 1942, insisted that money raised in the $100 million fund-raising campaign for the Target wing, which opened in 2006, be split evenly between the building and the acquisitions endowment.

That fund, now at $91 million, has allowed the institute to buy a rare early 18th-century Native American painted buckskin shirt and a nine-foot-long topographical View of Venice made by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500, among other recent purchases.

Contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations account for a quarter of revenues,[35] Almost half of the museum's operating money comes from the "park-museum fund," a century-old Hennepin County tax dating to 1911 that provides public support in exchange for free admission.

Dan chose St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra, a 17th-century painting by the Dutch artist Willem de Poorter.

[38] In 2008, the museum restituted Fernand Leger’s “Smoke Over Rooftops” to the heirs of Jewish collector Alphonse Kann whose collection had been looted by Nazis.

[39][40] In April 2024, the Italian Ministry of Culture ordered a ban on loans to the museum due to a legal dispute regarding the provenance of the Stabiae Doriforo, a Roman-era copy of the ancient Greek sculpture The Doryphoros of Polykleitos, which Italy said was looted from Stabiae and was subsequently bought by the museum from a private dealer in 1986.