Storied: San Francisco10 Apr 2025

The Tenderloin Museum Turns 10 (S7 bonus)

The Tenderloin Museum turns 10 years old this summer, and I for one am here to celebrate that.

We first visited TLM early last year, when we talked with museum Executive Director Katie Conry. This bonus episode is all about the many, many programs going on as they approach a milestone anniversary.

To start us off, we hear from Program Director Alex Spotto. Alex shares many (but not all) of the upcoming events Tenderloin Museum is either producing or affiliated with. They include:

a new production of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot play (opens tomorrow, April 11!)
an art show by Lady Harriet Sebastian (up through May)
Monumentalizing Community (film screening and discussion on April 17)
Club 181 Live at Great American Music Hall (April 23)
McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers Issue Release Party in Myrtle Alley (May 1, 6 to 8 p.m.)
Tenderloin Music and Arts Festival, by Psyched! Radio (May 16–17)
Panel discussion about the book Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, Whore (May 22)
Matthew G. Lasner talk about transforming apartments in the post-war era (May 29)

Visit TLM's Programming page for more events and more info, including tickets.

Then, Katie and I go on a walking tour of the new space into which the Tenderloin Museum will be expanding. The new spot will triple the size of the current museum and provide, among other things, a permanent home for the Compton's Cafeteria Riot play. They'll break ground this July, coinciding with the museum's 10th anniversary.

The current space where their permanent collection lives will become the SF Neon Museum.

They hope to open the new areas of the museum in 2026.

And so, to put it mildly, exciting times at San Francisco's Tenderloin Museum.

We recorded this episode at The Tenderloin Museum in March 2025.

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