We welcome the opportunity to expand our educational mission by allowing photography/filming at the Museum. Please review the outlined policies to ensure that all participants have an enjoyable, safe visit.
MPM is your resource for a safe viewing experience. Visit us or one of the below safe-viewing locations as the moon covers approximately 90% of the sun, clear skies permitting! We’ll have telescopes with special filters as well as eclipse glasses for $2 each (NOTE: Our eclipse viewing glasses are sold out). Cross your fingers for clear skies!
Educational activities will be available in the event of inclement or cloudy weather.
Looking to explore way-out worlds? The blistering Sun? Mysterious moons? Crazy comets and amazing asteroids? Then join our gang of smart, wacky reporters and rambunctious planets in the Planetarium Channel’s new extravaganza, The Solar System Show! We promise planet fun for everyone. Warning: Audience participation may be required. For families of all ages. For school groups K through 4th.
Showing June 16 - October 7, 2018
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Learn about the seasonal availability of edible spring plants in Wisconsin.
Titans of the Ice Age transports viewers to the beautiful and otherworldly frozen landscapes of North America, Europe, and Asia 10 thousand years before modern civilization. Travel across monumental glaciers and sweeping grasslands, rich in life—a Northern Hemisphere whose vast plains resembled the African Serengeti. Roam the mammoth steppe with baby Lyuba, a 40,000 year old female Woolly Mammoth calf, now one of the best preserved mammoth mummies in the world. Discover the story of Zed, one of the most complete Colombian Mammoth skeletons ever uncovered. Witness a time when the hunters became the hunted, where saber-tooths, dire wolves, and cave bears ruled untamed continents.
Showing June 15 - October 7, 2018
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Please email Dawn Koceja for more information at Koceja@mpm.edu or call 414-278-6943.
The manidog (spirits) are said to be extremely fond of tobacco and that the only way they could get it was from the Indians, either by smoke from a pipe or by offerings of dry tobacco. According to tradition, the Indians received tobacco as a gift from Wenebojo who had taken it from a mountain giant and then given the seed to his brothers.
Breads and grains are a global food; almost all cultures across the globe use them for a variety of purposes. Learn about the variations of breads and grains around the world and the differences between gluten, leavened bread, and unleavened bread.
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