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Milwaukee Public Museum would like to address some rumors about new Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild
July 20, 2022
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...

Check out new, wild renderings of new Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild
July 18, 2022
We've said it before and we’ll say it again: the Milwaukee Public Museum as you know it is not long for this world. Like, they plan to forever close the old one and open a new (state-of-the-art, much-smaller) o...

Demolition work has begun on the future home of the Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild
June 7, 2022
We've said it before and we'll say it again: the Milwaukee Public Museum as you know it is not long for this world. Like, they plan to forever close the old one and open a new (state-of-the-art, much-smaller) o...

“The best job ever”: An interview with former Milwaukee Public Museum exhibit designer Emilio Bras

Matt Wild
March 15, 2022
When the Milwaukee Public Museum moves to a new, smaller facility in the next few years, it'll lose more than just space. The exhibits at the new museum will be designed by a New York firm called Thinc Design—m...

We only have a few years left to enjoy the Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild
March 9, 2022
Milwaukee Public Museum's plans to vacate its increasingly deteriorating 60-year home at 800 W. Wells St. and build a new, drastically smaller, and dramatically different downtown museum have been known for yea...

Milwaukee Public Museum is closed Jan. 10-12, so here are 4 pictures of “The Quest For Beaver”

Matt Wild
January 10, 2022
In case you missed it, the Milwaukee Public Museum is closed Monday, January 10 through Wednesday, January 12. Why? "Staffing shortages amid the ongoing surge in regional COVID-19 cases," of course. MPM will pr...

50 photos of the reopened-but-still-eventually-moving Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild
March 5, 2021
Hey! The Milwaukee Public Museum reopened to the public on Thursday! Similar to its short-lived reopening in August 2020, COVID safety guidelines are in full effect—a single entrance on Wells Street, timed tick...

Milwaukee Public Museum, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum may share same (new) building

Matt Wild
September 2, 2020
Like it or not, the Milwaukee Public Museum is set to move to a new, significantly smaller location in the upcoming years. "It's time to admit that it's (nearly) the end of the Milwaukee Public Museum as we kno...

Milwaukee Public Museum will reopen to the public on August 21 (with some changes, of course)

Matt Wild
August 3, 2020
The Milwaukee Public Museum will reopen to the public on Friday, August 21. Fun! Enjoy it before the museum makes a permanent move in the near future! There'll be some pandemic-era changes, of course. First ...

Northwestern Mutual gives $1M to Milwaukee Public Museum to support “current, future museum”

Matt Wild
March 4, 2020
Consider this your weekly reminder that the Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it won't be around for much longer: On Wednesday, Northwestern Mutual announced a $1 million grant to the Milwaukee Public Museum. ...

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

Matt Wild
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
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 ...

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...
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