Dear friends of the Charles E. Gagnon Museum and Sculpture Garden, Thank you for your support of our beautiful museum that continues to offer the fine art of bronze sculpture created by Rochester, Minnesota sculptor, Chuck Gagnon. We want to thank the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation for their generous grant to maintain and renovate the wetlands in the Southwest corner of the sculpture garden. This year, we have seen the development of a new garden within the sculpture garde

Dan Maidl was a wonderful vollunter for the museum and our groundskeeper. Dan passed away on December 6, and the Gagnon Museum wishes to remember Dan and his family in our thoughts and prayers. Obituary: Daniel Max Maidl, 67, of Rochester, MN passed away peacefully at his home on December 6, 2025. Those who loved Dan - and there were many - take comfort knowing he left this world exactly the way he lived in it: cared for, surrounded by love, and probably thinking about what p

Arlyn Gagnon presenting the Sculpture Graphics. Now through October 31 th a unique, first-time event in the museum and sculpture garden...