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MPM Collection

Ndyuka artifacts are on permanent display at MPM.

There is also a reconstructed façade of a house and two black and white photographs of daily life; a stool; peanut grinding board; combs; food stirrers; and calabash spoons. The exhibit case, called "Bush Negro of Suriname South America" is located on the third floor of the Museum, at the end of the African Hall and the beginning of the South American Hall.

History Collection Access Policies

The History department of the Milwaukee Public Museum supports and encourages the use of the collections and documentation for research, educational, and exhibition purposes. Any reasonable and appropriate request for access is considered. Given the significance and sensitivity of the collections, however, certain guidelines have been established to govern access, publication, and/or other uses of the Museum's cultural collections and related documentation.

MPM History

MPM was one of several major American museums established in the late 19th century.

Although it was officially chartered in 1882, its existence can be traced back to 1851, to the founding of the German-English Academy in Milwaukee. The Academy's principal, Peter Engelmann, encouraged student field trips, many of which collected various specimens—organic, geological, and archaeological in nature—which were kept at the Academy.

Pop-Up Museum

Think you’ve been there and seen that? Not at an MPM Pop-Up Museum!

What is it?
A pop-up museum is a small, temporary exhibit outside the walls of MPM.  Each time we pop-up we choose a new theme and ask you, our community, to showcase your objects and stories that fit that theme.