The only love there is, is the love we make.The People's Museum's Final Days!

Join us for Prince & Spirituality, an afternoon dance, a closing circle of gratitude

As we bring this dream season of joy and gratitude to a close, there's still time to join us today 12-6pm (happy hour 4-6pm) or Saturday, 12-6pm, for our final day of celebration.

If you have already visited, come again. If you know someone who would appreciate this project, please encourage them to come.

We don't yet know when we will present next, so the moment to celebrate is now.

Saturday Closing Day Program

Saturday we are open from 12pm.

2pm special program with guest Pamela Ayo Yetunde on Prince and spirituality. We are honored to welcome Ayo to read from her book Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life and to lead us in a deeper conversation.

3pm- music and celebration continues! You are warmly invited to join our closing circle at 530pm as we bring this edition to a close.

Breathing with the museum, being in the present moment

Being a nomadic museum, we dream the vision, gather the stories and art, manifest it into a physical museum, welcome everyone in, then.. we send everything back home. I think of the Buddhist sand mandala practice — the deep focus of creating something intricate, collective and beautiful, knowing from the start it will be swept away. Like a breath, we draw in the inspiration, hold a moment to enjoy it, and then release it back to the world.

The good news: though we send the work back home to all the contributors, the archive lives on. Soon we'll be working on an online archive and looking at publication options. The idea is that next edition — whenever and wherever we're able to secure a space — we'll open the call for art and stories and contributions once again, and invite everyone to participate.

So many miracles have gathered around this project, this tribute to Prince Rogers Nelson.

First, being located in the heart of Prince's North Minneapolis childhood neighborhood. Being able to share some of Prince's history with visitors, showing them the house in view from the gallery where the Minneapolis Sound emerged, where Prince lived as a teen. The generosity of Kristen Zschomler leading free tours of Prince's North Minneapolis, showing visitors where he lived and providing informed historical context of these locations and of Minneapolis itself has helped us ground, to connect Prince with place.

Second, the gift of being able to present in Peyton Scott Russell's Roberts Gallery — with Peyton's own deep and complex Prince history. The generosity of Maija Garcia and the team at the Capri, for welcoming the People's Museum to this historic Prince venue — to present not only an exhibition across May and June seen by hundreds of visitors to Capri events through Prince season, but also the beautiful June 10 screening night, where we welcomed an international and local audience to an evening of art, film, poetry and music.

Tammy Ortegon of ColorWheel Gallery generously found us exhibition space in her South Minneapolis community arts gallery and hosted two Prince coloring parties in conjunction with the People's Museum, and introduced us to Stephanie Carlson and her extraordinary archive of Prince artifacts and memories from school days.

The engagement of the media: KARE 11's beautiful story on our opening day, NHK Japan featuring our story on their national broadcast (and running it twice, online too), the Guardian UK running my own personal story that led to creating this museum.

And the local press — Jill Boogren writing for Southwest Voices, Emma Walytka for Lavender Magazine, David Pierini for North News, QBear inviting me to KMOJ — helping ensure we welcomed local Minneapolitans to see this celebration of their beloved hometown artist. Wrapping with a live interview on Minnesota Live! on Monday was a beautiful support for this final week, and we've welcomed visitors in past days who first heard about us via that show. See our Press page for links

Yesterday, as I was feeling the need for a greater sense of celebration on our closing day, to express the joy that this museum has generated, I reached out to friends to see how on earth we might find a DJ at short notice, and for no budget. One hour later, Terry Jackson — Prince's friend and neighbor from the 1970s, when they both lived just across the road from the where the gallery is now— walked in the door and said, "I've been thinking, do you need a DJ for Saturday?" Thank you, Terry. Thank you, DJ Manny! Join us on the final day for great music as you experience the museum. There might even be a little dancing.

Note: I'm sharing some deep cut requests with Manny and also sharing a curated list from the guest book - all the Prince songs visitors have listed as their "Prince song today" during this month of June. Let's see what magic Manny will weave from this.

If you would like to do more to support the museum, we would love to receive your guest book comments via the website. If you feel moved to help through a donation, you can do this via the website or in the gallery.

Thank you to all the artists and participants, thank you to all the visitors. The People's Museum is co-created by all of us.

"The only love there is, is the love we make."

— Prince, "The Love We Make," 1996