Join MPM Educators, interns, and community presenters to learn more about the history and diversity of Wisconsin's tribal nations!
Visit us for floor engagements on the Ground, First, and Second Floors, and cultural presentations from noon to 2:00 p.m.
This year, we’ll be braving an unexpected winter blast as we reenact the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940. The characters will include outdoor enthusiasts, Great Lakes ships’ crews, municipal officials, and weather scientists. Follow along on Twitter at #MKE40.
Join MPM and the Zeidler Center for Public Discussion for a Community Conversation about museums, interpretation, and Native American collections. We'll begin with a panel of varying perspectives in the Gromme Lecture Hall and continue with a facilitated conversation in the A Tribute to Survival exhibit.
This event is full.
Milwaukee’s most beloved exhibit transforms into a salacious, adults-only party filled with style and sass on the Streets of Old Milwaukee at Scandal & Sleaze! Delve deeper into scandalous topics of centuries past while sampling some of our favorite spirits and snacks from the turn of the century.
$30 members, $35 non-members
Must be 21+ to attend. Must show valid I.D. at registration.
SOLD OUT
Experience a delightful show all about space death -- for adults only!
See how the Earth will slowly incinerate a billion years from now -- give or take. Watch the Sun swell into a red giant and become an iridescent, ghostly nebula. Discover the demise of all stars as they finally cave in to the menacing 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It promises to be a singular show full of compelling destruction -- all on a cosmic scale!
Youth are invited for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world. Locations vary.
Take a lively tour of the world to meet a dozen of the most remarkable robots in Europe, Japan, and the US! From Robonaut, the first space robot handyman, to robot butlers and home-helper humanoids to eerily human-looking androids to search-and-rescue robots, this film showcases the latest cutting-edge efforts —as well as the challenges —driving roboticists, engineers, and scientists around the globe to new breakthroughs. Take an exciting look at what makes us human, how far machines must go to look and act like us, and how humanoids are already changing our world. Addressing technological and philosophical questions with clarity and humor, Robots 3D provides a glimpse into a future in which man and machine forge an increasingly sophisticated relationship.
Showing March 30 - June 14, 2019
What if you had the chance to ask the people behind the scenes at your favorite museum anything you wanted? What would you want to know?
Ask a Curator Day on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 aims to blur the barriers that can make curators seem inaccessible to the public and wider sector.