Published May 8, 2013
A new traveling exhibition, "The Scoop on Poop," will run from Sept. 28, 2013 through Jan. 5, 2014. Based on the popular children's book of the same name, the exhibit will lead visitors on an investigation of what poop is and how animals and humans use it.
Published April 15, 2013
What has come to be known as Milwaukee's Museum Mile on the historic East Side is hosting its second annual event on Sunday, May 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Published April 6, 2013
After a decade in the making, the new home of the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) is finally opening to the public this weekend. Saturday and Sunday, museum staff are inviting the public to take their first glimpse of the new West Bend facility at 205 Veterans Ave. in West Bend.
Published Feb. 26, 2013
You can imagine our dismay yesterday at finding the snake button at the Milwaukee Public Museum inactive. But imagine our surprise a few minutes later when we found and pressed the museum's SECOND snake button. Who knew?!
Published Dec. 17, 2012
Located in Two Rivers, the Hamilton Wood Type Museum houses 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, making it one of the largest wood type collections in the world. However, the museum is being forced to move and is currently weighing options.
Published Oct. 2, 2012
The Milwaukee Art Museum has released the final attendance numbers for its 2011-12 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31.
Published Aug. 17, 2012
Though the Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear may seem new to me and you, much of the collection has actually been in situ for more than a decade at 839 N. 11th St., a big old house facing the freeway. The home was formerly the office of Avrum Chudnow, who was an avid collector of memorabilia and ephemera from Milwaukee's past, and Chudnow displayed many of the items there, beginning in 1991.
Published Aug. 14, 2012
The Milwaukee Public Museum announced today that it has received a $1.6 million grant from the Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust to renovate the Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater. Due to the grant, the theater will receive 3D capability by October 2012.
Published Aug. 13, 2012
Rick's Picks, a 5,000-square foot exhibit at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Ill., is stuffed with guitars, clothes, shoes, photos, videos, music and personal mementos from Cheap Trick's main songwriter and guitarist Rick Nielsen. Even part of his stamp and coin collections are on display.
Published June 28, 2012
NASA has awarded the Milwaukee Public Museum a grant of $588,467 to establish an extracurricular science education program for high school students in inner city.
Published June 12, 2012
American photographer Tom Arndt's photo series, "July 4th, Little Italy, NY," doesn't necessarily capture what it seem to depict. Sixteen of the monochromatic images are on display now in an exhibition at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum, through Aug. 5.
Published June 4, 2012
Parisian posters are ubiquitous. More than a century after their heyday, the world is still enthralled by them. Milwaukee Art Museum's new show, "Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries," which opened this weekend and runs through Sept. 9, helps explain why.
Published May 29, 2012
"Real Pirates," an exhibition of real treasures from the only authenticated pirate shipwreck in U.S. waters, will sail into the Milwaukee Public Museum Dec. 14.
Published April 13, 2012
Five of the city's art and culture museums have teamed up to form the Milwaukee Museum Mile and save visitors some money on their visits.
Published Feb. 22, 2012
Four years after it closed its doors, America's Black Holocaust Museum will re-open as a virtual museum Feb. 25, 2012.
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