Due to recent COVID concerns this event has been cancelled. We hope to invite families next year for a V-Day celebration. We’re inviting families to explore the museum’s exhibits and collections for a Valentine’s Day celebration. Make your own cards, explore [...]
Poetry is its own music, but what are its instruments? A typewriter is the percussion instrument of poetry's music. Keep a beat. Measure your own time. Join us in real space with a real typewriter and make a verse for the ages, [...]
Due to the raising surge of COVID cases, we will be postponing this event until National Chocolate Day on October 28th, 2022. A panel of Twin Cities’ chocolatiers discuss exciting aspects of their craft, new products, and the joys and challenges of [...]
This virtual program will reveal the riveting account of Minneapolis' red-light district and it's powerful madams who ran them. Author Penny Petersen will bring to life this chapter of our city's history, tracing the story of how these "houses of ill fame" [...]
As suburbs blossomed in the 20th century, they were often portrayed as idyllic embodiments of the American Dream. However, the horror genre instead mined suburban fears and anxieties to imagine what nightmares might lurk behind the white picket fences. Film expert Alex [...]
Join us and author Chad Montrie for an evening of discussion on the launch of his new book Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota. An examination of White Minnesotans’ efforts to exclude African Americans from local communities, [...]
Throughout history people have worked together to ensure that their communities can survive. It’s why we are alive today. In networks of mutual aid, community members take on the responsibility to care for one another. Can mutual aid stories from our shared [...]
Special HHM Member Event “If we cannot name and recognize plants, how can we value them and realize how essential they are to our environment and our well-being as humans?” —from the Introduction In 2012 a committee of experts chose the [...]
We invite the South Minneapolis community and current school board members to informally engage in conversation centering on ongoing issues that have played a role in educational policies since the time of the pairing of Hale and Field Elementary Schools in 1971. [...]
The construction of Olson Memorial Highway, Minneapolis’s “first Superhighway,” devastated a thriving Black and Jewish cultural corridor along 6th Avenue N, in a pattern often repeated across the country. Before the project began in the 1930s, this bustling neighborhood included dozens of [...]
