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Cosmic Curiosities

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”                                                               
- Gustave Flaubert, 19th-century French Novelist

TESS Triumphs

MPM Giving Day

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Thank you to everyone for supporting the Milwaukee Public Museum during Giving Day 2026. Throughout the day, donors from across our city, state, and beyond showed remarkable generosity.

DENNIS KOIS NAMED NEW PRESIDENT OF MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
Milwaukee-area native brings experience at premier U.S. museums,
including Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian, to lead Milwaukee treasure

 Transport yourself to a sensory wonderland.

Stroll through a lush, tropical garden. Hear the murmur of a cascading waterfall and the soothing sounds of tranquil music. Watch as exotic butterflies emerge from their chrysalises and sip nectar right before your eyes.

This magical atmosphere, filled with swirls of brilliant color and fanciful patterns of butterflies in flight, can only be found in the Museum's Puelicher Butterfly Wing.

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.

Figures are from left to right: Key - #A12304, Rapier - #A12360, Buckle - #A12308

The MPM Medieval German Archaeological Metal collection consists of 173 objects that were all collected in Germany in the late 19th century.

Although the objects are quite varied they share a common thread of utility and date between the 5th and 14th centuries C.E.