Description
Guided tours of the Counterculture Museum offer a more personalized journey through counterculture history, and a chance to enjoy additional stories and context behind the displays. Topics covered include:
- How movements like the Beat Generation transitioned into the counterculture of the 1960s.
- How the advent of television brought these tumultuous times straight into Americans’ living rooms.
- Feminism: more than a century of struggle for the vote, for women’s rights, liberation, and dignity.
- Movements for racial justice from SF to the nationwide civil rights movement.
- The drug culture, psychedelics, the Acid Tests, the Further bus and the Merry Pranksters.
- The Vietnam War and the peace movement that resisted it.
- Underground newspapers, the San Francisco Oracle, and underground comix.
- Rock ‘n’ roll, the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco Sound, and beyond.
- LGBTQ+ history and liberation.
- The environmental movement.
…and much more!