Charles E. Gagnon Museum & Sculpture Garden

05/12/2026

HIRING SUMMER INTERNS
The Gagnon Museum and Sculpture Garden is looking for two high school or college students for our summer internships for the 2026 season. No experience necessary, but a love of art appreciated. 15 flexible hours per week. $15 per hour. References required.

Some of the duties may include:
Greeting people
Assisting with Exhibits
Helping in the Sculpture Garden
Filing / Paperwork
Assisting with Emails
Research

Call the museum at 507-282-5202 to inquire.

05/06/2026

Excited to announce that the museum's sculpture garden will be features this year in the 2026 Garden Tour on Saturday, July 18th. Make sure you see the invite below to make your reservations of not only our beautiful sculpture garden, but the 5 other wonderful gardens on the tour.
Not only will you see these great gardens, but enjoy Charles Gagnon's bronze sculptures featured thoughout the garden.
Thank you to our own master gardener, Kara Vig for her dedicated landscaping/flower designs.

05/02/2026

Our volunteer luncheon was held on Saturday, April 25th at the museum. We thanked our volunteers for all the good work they have done this past year. We could not have done this without you. A special yellow rose was presented to everyone, which represents friendship.

A scholarship was given to Lucy Fulton, at our luncheon, who is a Mayo High School volunteer for the museum. She will go on to study Mechanical Engineering at the University of MN in Minneapolis.

A good time was had by all.

04/24/2026

Spring has sprung! As we get our ducks in a row... We Thank the Hosanna Lutheran confirmation youth volunteers for a spring cleanup of our sculpture garden. Thank you as well goes out to Ryan from Mr Pizza South for donating the pizza to keep our kids well energized. Speaking of ducks in a row... our local duck family also appreciates your hard work.

03/21/2026

Please join us for our opening of Art and Peace on Sunday, March 29th. Please register online prior to the event at https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/gagnonmuseum/items/710598/calendar/2026/03/

02/05/2026

Our new February newsletter is out and talks about St Francis and Chuck's mentor, Jacques Lipchitz. They were good friends and during the 1970's Jacques gave Chuck a series of lithographs of his sculptures as a thank you for Chuck's assistance at the art foundry. These lithographs will be on exhibit March 1st through April 30th: "Friendship: Gagnon and Lipchitz". Read more in our newsletter.

February 2026 NewsletterDear friends,This year we are focusing on friendship and peace.Chuck's mentor was Jacques Lipchitz. They were good friends and during the 1970's Jacques gave Chuck a series of lithographs of his sculptures as a thank you for Chuck's assistance at the art foundry. These lithog...

12/10/2025

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.

11/12/2025

Photos of large commissions of sculptures have been added to the displays of the small original bronze models in our display case. This helps tell the story of each unique bronze sculpture that Charles E "Chuck" Gagnon created. The timeline for this unique display starts from 1953 - 2012.

10/05/2025

During this October 4, which is the Feast of Saint Fransis of Assisi, mama doe gives a personal tour to her two youngins’. The sculpture garden is their home. They explore daily how the bronze sculpture of St Fransis is enjoying the new trees and flowers in his garden.

We would like to send special thanks to Kara Vig for her wonderful design and planting this summer and fall.

Two new service berry trees were planted to the right of the cross. They are suggestions of the “Tree of Life” and the “Tree of Knowledge”.

This sculpture of Saint Fransis is a proud reminder of man’s relationship with nature.

10/02/2025

During Chuck's life and career, he created a series of bronze angel sculptures. Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. We want to share this beautiful sculpture with you. May your guardian angel be an inspiration for peace, goodness, truth and beauty.

This guardian angel is in the museum. When you take a tour, you will see this beautiful angel in the west gallery.

An additional angel can be found at the entryway and was enlarged for the Saint Olaf Church in the Twin Cities. Two more bronze guardian angels can be discovered in the sculpture garden.