Hennepin History Museum is excited to announce we are partnering with Preserve Minneapolis as part of the museum’s new Program Partners initiative. This lecture is part of Preserve Minneapolis’s Minneapolis History Lecture Series. Click here for information about future topics.

Explore Minneapolis’s diverse and vibrant music history with local historian Kristen Zschomler. From Prince and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis’ creation of “The Minneapolis Sound” to Bob Dylan and the Cedar-Riverside folk scene to the high-energy punk rock of bands like Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, Kristen will take you on a musical and geographical journey through the city’s rich sonic heritage and will explore the social factors that lead to the development of so many influential musical genres.

Kristen Zschomler is a Minneapolis-based historian who researches and writes about places associated with Prince, The Minneapolis Sound, and music history in the Twin Cities. Kristen’s work resulted in two Prince places being recognized as historically significant in the National Register of Historic Places and as Minneapolis historic landmarks, preserving his legacy. Kristen is also the co-owner of SoundAround Music Tours, an innovative self-guided, GPS-led, audio tour app that tells the stories of Minneapolis’s music scene and artists including Prince, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Bob Dylan, and many more.

Doors open at 6:15pm.

Free parking is available in the museum’s lot and on 3rd Ave S.

This program will also be presented virtually on Zoom. Click HERE to register for the Zoom presentation.

Hennepin History Museum is partnering with Preserve Minneapolis to present this program.