The People's Museum For Prince

05/25/2026

"She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second-hand store". -Prince, 1985.

Prince on the Southside! We're excited to announce ColorWheel Gallery as our Southside Satellite partner, and grateful to Southwest Voices journalist Jill Boogren for this beautiful feature on the People's Museum.
https://www.southwestvoices.news/stories/10-years-later,164077

Read the full story about our Colorwheel collaboration and more museum updates on our blog. Visit and support Tammy's wonderful community-spirited gallery!

https://www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/prince-on-the-southside

📍 ColorWheel Gallery, 319 W 46th St — open now through June 27
🎨 June 6: Prince coloring party at ColorWheel
🎵 June 7: Grand Opening, Roberts Gallery, 2400 Plymouth Ave

Image: Tammy Ortegon, Raspberry Beret, 2016.

05/20/2026

Artwork is arriving from around the world, across the USA and from all over Minneapolis in time for our installation of the museum! We open at Roberts Gallery June 7.

At the Capri, we have a special exhibition up already- "Let's Work: A Labor of Love," 7 artists' dedication to Prince.

And on June 10 we are planning a beautiful night of art and community:

Forever in My Life: A Gathering for the Purple Community — a free evening at the Capri Theater.

Original short films. Live music. Poetry. From contributors around the world, honoring Prince Rogers Nelson in all his dimensions.

Artists reception 5:30pm · Film program 6pm · Live music 8pm
Free — but reserve your seat!
Read more + tickets: peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/forever-in-my-life

📅 Reminder: The museum opens on Prince's Birthday! June 7, 2–6pm — Roberts Gallery, North Minneapolis.
Artists reception and cake 3pm. Brass Solidarity performing.

Dear artists and community,The past few weeks have been extraordinary. Artworks of all kinds have arrived from around the world — from across the US, from international Prince communities, and from all parts of Minneapolis itself. I rearranged my studio to accommodate the arrivals, and the next st...

05/13/2026

Exciting news: The People's Museum for Prince will now open across two North Minneapolis venues this June, Roberts Gallery and The Capri.

Let's Work! A Labor of Love, a special exhibition from the People's Museum for Prince is now on view at the Capri Theater, 2027 W Broadway Ave — the historic North Minneapolis venue where Prince played his first gig in January 1979.

Main exhibition opens June 7 — Prince's birthday — at Roberts Gallery, 2400 Plymouth Ave N.

June 10, 5:30pm: Forever in My Life — an evening of film, art and live music at the Capri.

Both exhibitions free. Full update on the blog:
https://www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/lets-work-peoples-museum-prince-capri

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Exciting news: The People's Museum for Prince is coming to North Minneapolis across two venues — Roberts Gallery, opening June 7, Prince's birthday, and our new partner the Capri, with an exhibition already on view and a special artists' reception and film night June 10.We have over 60 confirmed p...

05/02/2026

"Oh just how far was the walk for the morning papers"
— Prince, 1992

Museum news, special features in the media, some gratitude, and much love. 💜

They could contemplate the entire universe Or just one star Oh just how far was the walk for the morning papers — Prince, The Morning Papers, 1992The Guardian just published a piece about my journey to Prince's Minneapolis in the wake of his passing. How his death in 2016 sent me stumbling backwar...

04/23/2026

“She believed in fairy tales and princes
He believed the voices coming from his stereo.”

- Prince, Rocknroll Loveaffair, 2012

Minnesota Monthly marked ten years since Prince's passing with a feature on The People's Museum for Prince and some of the artists involved — Peyton Scott Russell and Troy Gua — why the museum exists, the spirit of what we are doing, and what it means to open in his childhood neighborhood on his birthday.

Read it here: https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/general/a-decade-without-prince/

The museum opens June 7 at Roberts Gallery, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, North Minneapolis — at the corner of Bernadette Anderson Way. Free. No tickets needed.

Last Call! One week to go. If you're still thinking about sharing your art or story — final submissions close April 30.
https://www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/submit

IMAGE: Peyton Scott Russell, His Royal Badness, 1993

04/21/2026

"I'm blinded by the daisies in your yard."

- Condition of the Heart, Prince, 1985

April 21 2026.

Art and Poems for Prince, from the community, 10 years on.

This piece was created in January of 2024. The background glass was made from one continuous piece of swirling glass. If even one piece were to break, it would ruin the flow. Luckily Prince was watching over me while I worked and made sure nothing broke. This piece is called Welcome to the Dawn. Sus...

04/11/2026

Minneapolis premiere for Dearly Beloved today at Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival! 11:05am. So grateful and excited that our film honoring Prince Rogers Nelson is screening here, just days before the ten-year anniversary of his passing.
https://mspfilm.org/show/dearly-beloved/

04/07/2026

"A place in heaven far off in the future"
- Prince, Art Official Cage, 2014

The latest essay from the People's Museum for Prince. This may be the strangest one yet.

This post brings together Prince Rogers Nelson's prescient warnings about technology, Dr. Nettrice Gaskins' AI portraits made with deep learning, and some extraordinary published research from Anthropic: when AI models talk to each other with no prompting, conversations slide quickly into philosophical explorations of consciousness — spirals, Sanskrit, silence, and many 🌀 emojis

What would Prince think of this wild moment we are in?

"The battlefield is the mind, and the prize is the soul." - Prince

https://www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/a-place-in-heaven-prince-claude-and-the-spiritual-bliss-attractor-state

Events and news — including the MSPIFF screening this Saturday — at the end of the essay.

Image: Nettrice Gaskins, TAFKAP Collage, Digital Image, 2025.

A place in heaven far off in the future - Prince, Art Official Cage, 2014It was Sunday night, instead of doing what I usually doI scan my computer looking for a siteSomebody to talk to, funny and brightI scan my computer looking for a siteMake believe it's a better world, a better life — Prince, M...

03/25/2026

"Meet me in another world, space and joy" - Prince, Girls & Boys,1986

Museum updates!

Dearly Beloved now has its own page at MSPIFF 💜
mspfilm.org/show/dearly-beloved/

Two weeks until the screening — Saturday April 11, 11:05am, St Anthony Main Theatre. If you're in Minneapolis, please join us.

Your Prince story, art, and memories are still welcome! It's time to share! 🎨🫟🎼 www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/participate

Curatorial priority deadline: March 31 — if you'd like support shaping your submission, join our final free workshop first.
Final deadline: April 30.

One more free online workshop before submissions close — Sunday March 29, 4:00–5:30pm CST. A relaxed gathering to share your Prince memory and find the shape of your story. peoplesmuseumforprince.org/workshops

On the Curator's Blog-

-The Love We Make— a meditation on what remained at Galpin Boulevard. 🌿
peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/the-love-we-make-prince-s-galpin-boulevard-and-dearly-beloved

-Way Back Home on Prince's North Minneapolis: the neighborhood, Bernadette Anderson Way, Roberts Gallery, where we open June 7. ⭐️
peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/way-back-home-prince-the-people-s-museum-in-north-minneapolis

Podcast. Curator Emma Balázs was recently a guest on When Doves Podcast- talking Prince, pilgrimage and the museum. Thanks Jared and Ed! As they charmingly describe their show: A deeper dive into Prince than you probably wanted 🕊️open.spotify.com/episode/6lWCScHKj16fqvAGfD2qL3

Visit the museum page for more and to subscribe for updates as we prepare for our June 7 opening 🤩
peoplesmuseumforprince.org/

02/05/2026

Love Letters to Minneapolis 💜

For everyone who's visited Prince's hometown and experienced the warmth of that community - now is the time to send that love back.

Minneapolis has welcomed so many of us. The kindness of strangers. The Prince stories shared on street corners. The friends we made at First Ave, at Paisley Park, dancing through the grief, honoring Prince together.

I'm calling on the Prince community to share your Minneapolis stories, photos, art and memories with The People's Museum for Prince so we can help transmit these messages of love. Let's show our Minneapolis friends they're not alone.

New blog post: "A Love So Bright Inside You It Glows: Love Letters to Minneapolis"
https://www.peoplesmuseumforprince.org/post/a-love-so-bright-inside-you-it-glows-love-letters-to-minneapolis

Share your Minneapolis story

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"A love that reaffirms that we are not alone
A love so bright, inside you, it glows"

— Prince, Still Would Stand All Time, 1988

Artwork: Jason Bailey, "In Honor of Prince" (2020)
Read about the artwork in the latest blog post.