Thank you for being a member! You can make a difference today by making a gift (above and beyond membership) to the MPM Fund. Your gift helps protect and preserve collections, underwrites educational programs, and supports important scientific research.
The Oneida Tribe are members of the League of the Iroquois, a confederacy of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk based on mutual non-aggression. At a later date, the Tuscarora joined the Confederacy.
Trowbridge School of Discovery and Technology
Trowbridge is one of the many schools in the Milwaukee Public School system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are the closest school to Lake Michigan in the MPS system. Having this amazing resource right in their back yard allows Trowbridge students to have a rigorous academic curriculum with a focus on ecological, Great Lakes, and freshwater studies.
Education Programs take your group on a 50-minute, guided adventure of a specific subject area. These hands-on, interactive experiences incorporate objects, displays and exhibits that support your classroom course of study and support specific Wisconsin Model Academic Standards.
Oral traditions of the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Ottawa assert that at one time all three tribes were one people who lived at the Straits of Mackinac. From there, they split off into three separate groups, and the Potawatomi were "Keepers of the Sacred Fire." As such, they were the leading tribe of the alliance the three Indian nations formed after separating from one another.
Your gift to Milwaukee Public Museum’s annual fundraising campaign helps protect and preserve collections, underwrites educational programs, and supports important scientific research.
Half a million visitors – including more than 140,000 students and children – benefit from MPM’s programs, events, and exhibits each year. 2026 will be the final full year in our current building, and with your help, we plan to make it our most impactful year yet.
Includes one Planetarium program
Dome Theater films may be purchased separately.
The Oneida Tribe are members of the League of the Iroquois, a confederacy of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk based on mutual non-aggression. At a later date, the Tuscarora joined the Confederacy. The Oneida’s traditional territory is in upstate New York. The Oneida refer to themselves as Oneyoteaka, "People of the Standing Stone." According to Oneida traditions, there was always a large, red boulder near the main Oneida village.
For the indigenous First Nations of Canada’s Pacific coast, masks are more than mere decoration or ceremonial props; they are part of a living tradition that connects people to their community, their collective past, their creator, their ancestors, their cosmology, and powerful elemental forces.The majority of the masks presented here were made by Kwakiutl[1] (now known as Kwakwak