Oct. 2022: Theresa Weaver-Basye, curator of education, talks about the different items on altars which remind people of their passed loved ones and are intended to welcome their spirits back to the world of the living during Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at the Sioux City Public Museum.
SIOUX CITY — Framed portraits, candles, glass jars of mole sauce, coarse sea salt grains piled up and shaped like crosses and, of course, a variety of decorative skulls can be found on altars at the Sioux City Public Museum, now through Nov. 4.
Theresa Weaver, the Sioux City Public Museum's curator of education, said papel picado skulls, which students and museum visitors made out of tissue paper, will be incorporated into the museum's Día De Los Muertos exhibition, which runs through Nov. 4. Weaver is shown by a Day of the Dead altar.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
What: Day of the Dead/ Día de los Muertos Fashion Show/Performances: M's Formal Fashion Show, Ballet Folklorico Estrellas de Jalisco, New Stage Players Actuaciones del Proyecto Dramático del Teatro, refreshments.
When: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Sioux City Public Museum, 607 Fourth St.
What: Day of the Dead/ Día de los Muertos Celebration: La Perla Tapatía, a dance group from Irving Elementary School, Mariachi Reyes del Oeste from Denison, Morningside Spanish Club Reader's Theater performance of "Little Monster, What Pan Dulce Do You Want?," crafts, face painting, refreshments
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Theresa Weaver, the Sioux City Public Museum's curator of education, said papel picado skulls, which students and museum visitors made out of tissue paper, will be incorporated into the museum's Día De Los Muertos exhibition, which runs through Nov. 4. Weaver is shown by a Day of the Dead altar.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
Altars are on display at the Sioux City Public Museum through Nov. 4 to mark Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is typically celebrated Nov. 1-2.
