In 1971, Minneapolis implemented the Hale-Field school pairing to promote school desegregation. That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing school busing. This was a time that Jim Crow laws were rampant and the north instituted policies and [...]
Join us for a free virtual guided tour of Home of Memories followed by an artist talk with photographer Ahmed Alshaikhli. The artist talk will be held in both Arabic and English. BIO: Photographer Ahmed Alshaikhli is a seasoned photojournalist, working [...]
Due to the recent COVID surge, we will be postponing this event. Please check back in the coming weeks for the new date change. Four of the Twin Cities’ spoken wordsmiths perform 3 poems each for a total of 12 of their [...]
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 [...]
Due to the recent COVID surge, we will be postponing this event. Please check our page in the following weeks for the new date change. During this “harvest,” community members are invited to bring and share their papers, photographs, objects and stories, [...]
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, [...]
