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The Milwaukee Public Museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Mexican Kickapoo material in the United States.

This is due to the fieldwork conducted by Ritzenthaler and Peterson in the 1950s and Felipe and Dolores Latorre in the 1960s and 1970s.

Cosmic Curiosities

“To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there,
and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.”
~ Mary Roach, American Author

When was Aztalan first discovered?

Aztalan was first discovered by Europeans in the fall of 1835 by early Wisconsin Territory settler Timothy Johnson of Watertown. Upon hearing stories of the site, Judge Nathaniel Hyer, a Milwaukee settler, visited. His description, the first at-length published account of Aztalan, appeared in the Milwaukee Advertiser, Volume One, Number 29 on Saturday, February 25th, 1837. In this account, Judge Hyer also produced the first rudimentary map of the site.

Gertrude Duby Blom (1901-1993)

Cosmic Curiosities

“Like the moon, I have learned to be beautiful in darkness.”
- Collette O'Mahony, American Author and Poet

Touching the Moon

Some consider bugs yucky and gross, while others are very interested in the various critters that surround us.

Here, we will be focusing on two types of bugs: insects and arachnids. Examples of insects include butterflies, ladybugs, bees, etc. And arachnids aren’t just spiders -- other examples include scorpions and ticks.