Milwaukee Public Museum Archives

Mandatory Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum is an old-school treasure (for now)

January 20, 2020

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

It’s time to admit that it’s (nearly) the end of the Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it

Matt Wild

June 13, 2019

Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Public Museum announced its new president and CEO, Dr. Ellen J. Censky. A Cedarburg native, Dr. Censky started her career with MPM back in 1977, and has served as the interim pr...

New study recommends demolishing Domes, creating shared facility with Public Museum

Matt Wild

March 11, 2019

On Tuesday, March 12, Milwaukee County's Parks, Energy and Environment Committee will consider a new study that recommends the full demolition of the Mitchell Park Domes, and the creation of a shared, $300 mill...

Let’s talk about smoking at the Fiserv Forum, impounding Bird scooters, and moving the museum

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 2, 2018

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...

Here’s what the new Milwaukee Public Museum might look like

Matt Wild

July 27, 2018

The Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it is not long for this world. Last year, MPM announced it would being moving to a new, four-story, $100 million downtown home sometime in the next decade. Today, it relea...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host another adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Night At ...

Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new downtown location in the next decade

Matt Wild

March 7, 2017

Heads up, snake button enthusiasts: According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new, $100 million downtown home sometime in the next decade. MPM is pursuing the optio...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

July 12, 2016

//The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Ni...

Aaron Rodgers ads, Milwaukee’s “fashion district,” and more

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 27, 2015

Help put the finishing touches on MPM’s revamped Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit

Matt Wild

August 25, 2015

If your appetite for turn-of-the-century cobblestone roads and vaguely creepy, not-quite-life-sized storefronts has gone curiously unfilled this summer, there’s a reason for that. Milwaukee Public Museum’s icon...

Do octopuses have souls? Have a drink at Milwaukee Public Museum and find out

Matt Wild

June 8, 2015

Go figure that on the day we round up 12 weird Milwaukee drinking locations, the Milwaukee Public Museum announces an event that combines the simple joys of alcohol with the not-so-simple joys of lectures about...

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes will close out MPM’s Sci-Fi Film Fest

Matt Wild

November 13, 2014

The voters have spoken, and they’re voting for the “classics”: 1978’s Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes—a cautionary tale of what happens when the ketchup industry goes criminally unregulated—will close out the Mil...

Vote now! (For MPM Sci-Fi Film Fest’s “biggest sci-fi turkey of all time”)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

Last month, we informed you that nature had found a way, and Milwaukee Public Museum would be kicking off its new Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park. The six-movie, six-week festival continues this Thursday an...

Milwaukee Public Museum spares no expense, opens Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park

Matt Wild

October 13, 2014

Back in 1993, director Steven Spielberg thrilled the world with Jurassic Park, the tale of out-of-control dinosaurs, the hubris of man, and Jeff Goldblum’s bare, glistening chest. Now, 21 years, two sequels, an...

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