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Juneteenth 2022 ✊🏿

Sunday, June 19
11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Join us at Please Touch Museum in celebration of resilience and liberation! Enjoy museum programming celebrating the Black experience, including special musical and dance performances on Sunday, June 19. 

Plus, in recognition of Juneteenth and Father’s Day, the Museum is offering free admission to fathers and father figures on June 19!

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Featured Juneteenth Performances

Storytime with Gail Ramos, Author of Hooray! It’s Juneteenth Day!

June 19
11:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Center Core (Lower Level)

Traditions of Juneteenth with Performance Artist Thembi Palmer

June 19
1 and 1:30 p.m.
Center Core (Lower Level)

West Philadelphia High School Marching Band and Majorette Dancers

June 19
2 p.m.
Hamilton Hall

Please note that due to the volume of this performance, our visitors with sensory processing sensitivities may want to explore the Lower Level during this time.


Museum Programming
June 18 and June 19

Kente Cloth Workshop
Creative Arts Studio

In recognition that many enslaved people were from West Africa and in celebration of African retentions in African American fashion, explore the rich beauty of Kente cloth in the Creative Art Studio!

Workshop: Making Medicine

Join us in the Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace for a design challenge focused on Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett! Dr. Corbett is the lead investigator who developed the Moderna COVID vaccine, and a current professor of immunology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Join us to learn how doctors make medicine, and build your own pretend “medicine,” using a color pH indicator.

Tot Spot: Quilt Blocks
Nature’s Pond

Learn about African and African American clothing and quilt designs and use tactile quilt blocks to create patterns inspired by these designs, in this activity designed especially for our youngest learners.


Juneteenth Resources

  • History of Juneteenth
    • What is Juneteenth? (History Channel)
    • What is Juneteenth? (PBS)
    • So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth? (New York Times)
    • Juneteenth through the lens of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Children’s Books about Juneteenth
    • Opal Lee And What it Means To Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan
    • Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom (Step Into Reading) by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  • Resources for Adults
    • On Juneteenth by Anette Gordon Reed
    • The 1619 Project

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