Heritage & Awareness Observances We Support

Align exhibits with heritage months and inclusion-focused programming

Seasonal programming provides event organizers with a structure to work from, and means you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

A lone, leafless tree on a snowy landscape with a white sky in the background.

Winter

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day [27th]

  • Black History Month

    World Day of Social Justice [20th]

  • Women’s History Month

    Bayard Rustin Day [17th]

    International Women’s Day [18th]

    International Transgender Day of Visibility [18th]

    International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade [25th]

A row of pink cherry blossom trees in full bloom with green grass and blue sky in the background.

Spring

  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Arab American Heritage Month

    4/2: First lesbian elected to public office (Kathy Kozachenko, Ann Arbor MI City Council)

    Asexual Visibility Day [6th]

    Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Israel) [date varies]

    Earth Day [22nd]

    Lesbian Visibility Day [26th]

  • Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

    Indian Heritage Month

    Mental Health Awareness Month

    Jewish American Heritage Month

    Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who Lost their Lives during WWII [8th]

    World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development [21st]

  • LGBTQ+ Pride Month

    Juneteenth National Independence Day [19th]

    Alan Turing & Alfred Kinsey's birthday [23rd]

    The day Edie Windsor won United States v. Windsor [26th]

    Stonewall Riots anniversary [28th]

    Henry Gerber's birthday [29th]

Lavender flowers blooming in a field with a blurred green horizon in the background.

summer

  • Disability Pride Month

  • International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples [9th]

    Black Nite Brawl day (Milwaukee) [15th]

    International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition [23rd]

  • Latinx Heritage Month [9/15 - 10/15]

A dirt path winding through a forest with trees showing autumn foliage, sunlight filtering through the branches, and a wooden fence along the right side.

Autumn

  • LGBTQ+ History Month

    National Coming Out Day [11th]

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day [14th]

    Spirit Day–Anti Bullying [17th]

  • Native American Heritage Month

    International Day for Tolerance [16th]

    International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM [18th]

    Transgender Day of Remembrance [20th]

  • World AIDS Day [1st]

    Incorporation of the Society for Human Rights (Illinois) [10th]

    Human Rights Day [10th]

    American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses anniversary [15th]

    International Human Solidarity Day [20th]