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UPLIFT COMMUNITY
Led by (Neo)Muralismos de México (NMM), a St Paul-based nonprofit, the Museum will be located in the historic West Side Flats, the St. Paul neighborhood where the first Mexican immigrants established a Latino barrio over a century ago. The MN Latino Museum will be the first in the Upper Midwest, and 1 of 25 Latino-focused museums in the US.
CELEBRATE heritage
The MN Latino Museum will provide a space for Latino communities to celebrate our amazing cultural heritage, with 3 interconnected areas of focus:
ARTS & CULTURE
Two spacious art galleries will present rotating exhibitions of local Minnesota-based Mexican and Latino artists, as well as visiting artists. Our public programming will focus on community-engaged activities for all members of a family. Programming will include live music, folk art, poetry sessions, dance classes. The museum will also include an outdoor Sculpture Park & Mural Garden, where we will celebrate and uplift our rich public art history, and offer outdoor performance activities.
SOCIAL/CULTURAL HISTORY
We will tell the story of our community across Minnesota — where we came from, who we are, where we are going. A special focus will be the history of Mexican communities on the West Side Flats — the arrival of our community to this location over a century ago, as well as space for remembrance and healing from our displacement from this neighborhood in the 1960s.
NATURE, AGRICULTURE & CULINARY TRADITIONS
Today, we know the sacred Mississippi waters connect us to our homelands in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Long before the arrival of Europeans, indigenous trade-routes along the Mississippi and its many tributaries facilitated the arrival of Mesoamerican food crops to the region — corn, beans, squash. The museum will include a gardening spaces and a green-house, with interactive exhibits about medicinal plants, food crops, culturally-specific flowers and plants, etc.
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