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Runestone Museum

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Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Runestone Museum
Phone:
+1 320-763-3160

Hours:
Sunday11am - 4pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The Kensington Runestone is a 202-pound slab of greywacke covered in runes on its face and side. A Swedish immigrant, Olof Ohman, reported that he discovered it in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named it after the nearest settlement, Kensington. The inscription purports to be a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century . There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, but the scholarly consensus has classified it as a 19th-century hoax since it was first examined in 1910, with some critics directly charging the purported discoverer Ohman with fabricating the inscription. Nevertheless there remains a community convinced of the stone's authenticity.
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