Event Details

Name: "We Like to Kick Up Our Heels" Collections Highlight
Start: 2025-06-06
End: 2025-09-25
Location: Rural Life Museum

Friday, June 6, 2025 to Thursday, September 25, 2025

Part of History Makers Tour - NW

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Rural Life Museum

Tourist Park

Mondovi, WI 54755

mondovihistory@yahoo.com

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About the Event

The Wisconsin History Makers Tour will bring history directly to local communities in every region of the state through pop-up exhibits, object displays, public programs, outdoor installations, and other activities.

Here in Wisconsin, people come together across cultures with dance. The state has a long history of supporting the art form as a means of social and personal expression. Many folk dances come from our vibrant immigrant communities, including Mexican, Bavarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish, Irish, Polish, Italian, and many other dance traditions. Native Nations in the state also celebrate their culture through dances that act as communal spiritual and symbolic rituals. From colorful costumes and fancy footwear to unique musical instruments, each dance style has an ambience of its own and brings joy to its participants. Learn more through the images, activities, and objects here on display!

The History Makers Tour is presented by Culver's.

Exhibit exploring the state's long history of supporting dance as a means of social and personal expression

We Like To Kick Up Our Heels

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Red leather Scottish country dance shoes called ghillies and a tin fiddle inside a glass case.