The Bakken Museum

Earl Bakken was a scientist and inventor who was studying exact sciences all his life. He established a museum to easily explain complex processes. It bears the names of its founder.

Bakken was always very curious, he adored to disassemble devices. To understand how they work, he watched a Frankenstein movie. Bakken was amazed at how far the science can go if only do it with enthusiasm. As an adult, Bakken founded a medical company. There, he invented the implantable cardiac pacemaker. Reaching success in various fields and earning a fortune, he was thinking about the legacy he could leave. So, he decided to establish a museum.

In 1969, a librarian in the Bakken company started to collect various items that could explain physical processes. These were mainly antiques approved by Bakken. By 1974, the collection could not be longer contained in the building of a medical company. So, a new place was found. 

Now the Bakken Museum does not look like a museum, but an educational center. You can look at unusual processes and also try to make them by yourself. Here, with simple tools, you can move the fluid, changing its state, or make a real small storm. In the paintings, decorating the walls of the museum, there are secret signs. Visitors can try to discover them. 

A special place in the museum is keeping for the Bakken's favorite story, the story of Frankenstein. Here are many illustrations depicting various events of Marie Shelley’s novel. You can look at the recreated interior of the Frankenstein laboratory and see a theatrical show.