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ASTC Travel Passport Program

With MPM membership, you’ll receive admission benefits at 300+ museums, thanks to the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Travel Passport Program. The Travel Passport Program rewards you for supporting the Milwaukee Public Museum by giving you a benefit you can use while traveling.

MPM’s Native American galleries on the Second Floor illustrate the connection that America’s first people had with the land.

Their ingenuity and ability to adapt to their surroundings supported them as they settled across a broad range of environments and developed into hundreds of culturally diverse tribes.

Understanding our natural world is both exciting and essential.

Exploring the rich variety of plants and animals and how they are interconnected opens up opportunities to understand our own role in the natural world. Our virtual education resources are designed to lead teachers and students to a more thorough understanding of the critical role ecosystems and biodiversity in both our backyards and beyond.

Our virtual resources provide teachers and students with the opportunity to enrich their perspectives on many of the traditions, material culture, and belief systems of various North American Indian tribes.

Video Resources

Compare & Contrast Tour 

In this series of five videos, we’ll discuss the resources Native Americans used to survive in their environments.

MPM houses an impressive collection of tens of thousands of fossils from around the world.

This includes Wisconsin’s Silurian Reef formation where, more than 400 million years ago, our State and much of North America was on the equator and covered by a warm, shallow sea. Many of these specimens can be found in The Third Planet and Exploring Life on Earth galleries.

The Milwaukee Public Museum’s ancient civilization collections and research resources include 60,000 objects from cultures around the globe.

These cultures include Sumeria, Rome, Egypt, Greece, and Aztalan, one of Wisconsin’s most important and extensive archaeological sites. Our virtual education resources are designed to support teachers and students in exploring many of these ancient civilizations in order to deepen their understanding and appreciation of different cultural beliefs and practices.

For September, we're looking at all things flora and fauna in Wisconsin!

This month's featured exhibit is our Second Floor's Wisconsin Woodlands. Understanding our state’s natural environment is both exciting and essential.