Tagged Milwaukee Public Museum

Here's your gentle, semi-regular reminder that the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) as you know it—the weird, wild, wonderful, cavernous, and charmingly out-of-time museum that has stood at 800 W. Wells St. since ...

For the first time ever, Milwaukee Public Museum's beloved Streets of Old Milwaukee have been decorated for fall and Halloween. You should check 'em out! Stroll through the 1900s-era streetscape exhibit and ...

On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from the Milwaukee Public Museum held a ceremonial groundbreaking for MPM's new museum. Due to inclement weather, the event was held indoors, in the ballroom of the luxurio...

Happy Thanksgiving, Milwaukee! Is it officially the beginning of the "holidays"? Sure! Why not! So here's a friendly reminder: Milwaukee Public Museum's Streets of Old Milwaukee and European Village exhibits ar...

We've said it before and we'll say it again: After all the hubbub over what the future home of the Milwaukee Public Museum will or will not carry over from the current museum, it's remarkable how familiar the i...

How's everyone feeling so far about the new permanent galleries coming to the future Milwaukee Public Museum? We've seen sketches of the dino-tastic "Time Travel," the state-focused "Wisconsin Journey," and the...

It's been nearly a year since demolition work began on the site of Milwaukee Public Museum's future home at Sixth and McKinley Streets, in the Haymarket neighborhood next to the Deer District. In June 2022, con...

It's Milwaukee/414/MKE Day, so the Milwaukee Public Museum is giving the public a sneak peak at the "spiritual successor" to its Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit, "Milwaukee Revealed." This is the third permane...

On Thursday, the Milwaukee Public Museum and exhibit partner Thinc Design gave the public a sneak peek at renderings of "Wisconsin Journey," the second permanent gallery that will be part of MPM's future museum...

On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Public Museum and exhibit design partner Thinc Design gave the public its first glimpse of "Time Travel," one of five permanent galleries that will be part of MPM's future museum. A...

Following a flood of not-thrilled online comments over the news that "entire exhibits" from the current Milwaukee Public Museum—like the Streets of Old Milwaukee—"won't be moving over" to the museum's future lo...

UPDATE (1/10/23): Milwaukee Public Museum would like to clarify the whole "entire exhibits won't be moving over" thing. Pockets of the Milwaukee internet are currently in a tizzy over the Milwaukee Public Mu...

As you (hopefully) know by now, the Milwaukee Public Museum isn't long for this world. MPM is in the early stages of building a new, state-of-the-art, smaller home just north of the Deer District, on the corner...

In case you missed it, the Milwaukee Public Museum is not long for this world. The current museum will close in 2026, and it will be replaced by a new (state-of-the-art, smaller) museum just north of the Deer D...

It was "Everyone Is An Architect" day on Monday when the Milwaukee Public Museum unveiled new renderings of the new Milwaukee Public Museum. "Cool!" said some people. "Awful!" cried others. Us? We think the new...