Midsommar Celebration (American Swedish Institute)
Minneapolis, MN · Holiday
- When
- June 19, 2027
- Where
- American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave · Minneapolis · MN
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
The American Swedish Institute celebrates Midsommar with maypole dancing, flower crown making, live music, and Swedish food on its Minneapolis campus. It is one of the museum's highest attendance days of the year, held each June on the Saturday nearest the summer solstice. ASI has marked the Swedish midsummer holiday for decades.
The history within reach
The American Swedish Institute celebrates Midsommar with maypole dancing, flower crown making, live music, and Swedish food on its Minneapolis campus.
Ninety thousand works from five thousand years, free to enter every day since it opened, a condition of the original subscription that the city has never broken.
Two hundred people met in a Minneapolis basement to organise patrols that followed police around the Franklin Avenue bars and photographed the arrests of Native people.
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Born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis and named for his father's jazz trio.
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