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Welcome to the Pop-Up Museum !

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History is a grassroots organization that transforms spaces into temporary installations celebrating the rich, long, and largely unknown histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. We believe that our community – and especially our youth – deserve to know our history. If you don’t know you have a past, how can you believe you have a future?

Please visit our current show, Pop-Up Philadelphia, at The William Way LGBT Community Center (1315 Spruce St.) any day between now and May 19th!

Call for Proposals – Pop-Up NYC 2012

Call for Proposals: Exhibits forthe Pop-Up Museum of Queer History – NYC The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History gives voice to the rich, long, and largely unknown histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Our community – and especially our youth – deserve to know our history. If you don’t know you have [...]

Join us for a talk on “Obscene Resistance!”

Looking for something smart, queer and fabulous to do next week? Join us on Wednesday evening at 7pm at the William Way LGBT Community Center (1315 Spruce St., Philadelphia), as Professor Whitney Strub (from Rutgers University) gives us a powerpoint on the history of obscenity, pornography, and queer organizing. Check out the full description below: [...]

Pop-Up Museum Partners with Riot Grrrl Ink!

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History is excited to announce our new community partnership with Riot Grrrl Ink, the largest queer label in the world. With their invaluable support, we will be able to reach new audiences, and bring our vision of community-created queer history shows around the country (and some day, the world!). If [...]

Pop-Up Philadelphia is a Resounding Success!

Over 300 people turned out on Saturday for the opening of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History’s Philadelphia show at The William Way LGBT Community Center. It was an amazing evening of community, performance, history, and art, and we at the Pop-Up Museum feel simultaneously humbled and excited to have been be part of it. [...]