Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard
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.
Robots 3D
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
Ask a Curator Day 2018
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.
Hidden MPM Tour: Holidays in History
Learn how holiday traditions brought from European immigrants to Milwaukee blended together to create our modern celebrations.
Date and Time
Saturdays, December 7-28 (no tour December 14)
11:00 a.m. - Noon
Cost
$4 non-members plus admission, $2 members
Hidden MPM Tour: A Tribute to Survival
Join us for a fascinating overview exploring how First Americans survived and thrived while shaping U.S. history and transforming the rest of the world.
Date and Time
Saturdays, November 2-30
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Cost
$4 non-members plus admission, $2 members
Hidden MPM: Docent's Choice
Who better to pick tour topics than our very own docents?!
February 2 - Shanna Hillard: Apex Predators
February 9 - Paul Komorowski: Weapons
February 16 - Chris Hillard: Ancient Urbanization
February 23 - Chris Rundblad: The T. rex
Planetarium - Space Aliens
Join our alien experts — “Hopeful” and “Skeptical” – as they examine Xtra-terrestrial files and try to convince each other whether or not life exists beyond the Earth. Follow their cosmic arguments from the ocean floor to a journey across the galaxy!
Showing October 8 - March 29
Mountain Quest - Giant Film
Mountain Quest is tapestry of jaw-dropping action combined with rich STEM content and physics of the real world – how climbing is a tug-of-war between friction and gravity, while skiing involves the same battle of forces in reverse, and more. Educational insights on engineering are seamlessly integrated with dramatic visuals and action. Narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Showing October 8 - March 29
Planetarium - Spooky Space
Looking for cosmic fun this Halloween season? Would you like to meet the stars -- the stars of Halloween? Monsters, zombies, and ghosts -- and their far more terrible counterparts in space? Oh yes, space has its monsters: Black holes, zombie stars, and spectacular ghostly nebulae!
Special Halloween programming throughout October.
Oceans: The Blue Planet 3D
Take a global odyssey to discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. From the coastal shallows to deeper, more mysterious worlds, hear the untold stories of the oceans' most astonishing creatures. Meet fascinating characters like the ingenious tusk fish that uses a tool to open its food. Find a cunning octopus who shields herself in an armory of shells to hide from predators. Journey through the oceans to experience these extraordinary discoveries and uncover a spectacular world of life beneath the waves.
Showing October 8 - March 29