Milwaukee Public Museum

Visit the Museum from 10am - 4pm, Saturday, November 7, for a wild annual event: Snake Day! Free with Museum admission.

Back by popular demand!

Now is your chance to touch some of the world's most fascinating creatures. Get hands-on with a variety of pythons, boas, king snakes, rat snakes and other legless wonders. Feel free to reach out and touch other reptiles: tortoises, iguanas, monitor lizards and even alligators!

Become an adventurer

Stand in a row and help hold a 15-foot python! Kids and adults can shed their old perceptions of reptiles, and snakes in particular, at this special event. Find out more about reptile behavior and unique traits.

Thinking about a reptile as a pet?

Learn which ones make the best house-guests and how to care for them. Ask experts including Bob Henderson, Museum curator of reptiles and amphibians, along with members of the Chicago Herpetological Society and Wisconsin Herpetological Society, anything and everything you ever wanted to know about reptiles.