The People's Museum for Prince | Prince community museum

There's a door that you can walk through, where there used to be a wall
-Prince, Breakdown, 2014

Close-up portrait of Prince's eye from Purple Passion by Lori Kay Blake-Leighton, community-contributed Prince art

Ƭ̵̬̊ The People's Museum for Prince returns to Minneapolis in 2026 Ƭ̵̬̊

A special commemorative edition of the Museum to mark 10 years since Prince's passing.

Call for stories, art, collaborators and volunteers - coming soon!

The People’s Museum for Prince is a nomadic experimental museum, inspired by the deep, sustained public mourning for Prince, and created to honor his transformational impact and personal influence on many lives across the world.

Collecting stories, artwork and other personal and biographical artifacts, the museum presents a new kind of portrait of the artist via the hearts and minds of his audience.

The museum also conducts and presents historical and artistic research on Prince’s life and work, as part of its educational mission to deepen public understanding of Prince’s legacy and his unique boundary-crossing contributions to the arts.

Meanwhile, please explore the museum's past editions:

2018 Museum - presenting more than 30 artists and stories, and welcoming over 3000 visitors to the space at Solar Arts Minneapolis.

2018 Opening Night feature from The Current, Minnesota Public Radio. "People’s Museum for Prince’ brings purple pride to Art-A-Whirl"

2019 Pop up at Moon Palace timed to celebrate the launch of Prince's memoir The Beautiful Ones.

Image credit: Lori Kay Blake-Leighton, Purple Passion (detail), 2016. Print from original water color, acrylic, ink.

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There's a door that you can walk through, where there used to be a wall -Prince, Breakdown, 2014

There's a door that you can walk through, where there used to be a wall
-Prince, Breakdown, 2014