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Membership Auto Renewal
Simplify your annual renewal today!
With auto renewal, your membership will continue uninterrupted from year to year, so you’ll never worry about missing an event or exhibition. No need to mail in your renewal form or visit our website to continue enjoying free admission and other members-only benefits!
And to thank you for your commitment to MPM, enjoy a one-time savings of 20% off your membership when you opt in to auto-renewal. Enter the discount code AUTO during checkout.
Clue Crew Explorer Guides
Clue Crew Explorer Guides are a fun way to discover Museum exhibits!
These handy booklets feature images, illustrations, and trivia to help guide your family through the galleries—and create a new experience each time you visit! Clue Crew guides are designed for children age 6-12, but members of any age are welcome to participate.
Guides are located in Member Services.
Future Neighbor Membership Offer
Did you know the Museum is moving to Sixth and McKinley? With the relocation, we want our future Halyard Park and Hillside neighbors to start enjoying it today! As one of our future neighbors, you can get a FREE family membership to enjoy the current location at 800 West Wells Street.
Your free membership gives you:
Wisconsin Woodlands
Explore the fens, forests, oak barrens, and meadows of Wisconsin, then visit the Birds of Wisconsin display with more than 75 mounted specimens of rare and common birds.
Mounted Wisconsin mammals are also on display. In addition, visitors can explore the habitats of Wisconsin's Woodland Indians, and see excellent examples of porcupine quillwork, beadwork, weaving, and other crafts.
2024 Solar Eclipse Watch
On Monday, April 8, Milwaukee will see its biggest solar eclipse in 70 years!
MPM is your resource for a safe viewing experience. Visit us or one of the below safe-viewing locations as the moon covers approximately 90% of the sun, clear skies permitting! We’ll have telescopes with special filters as well as eclipse glasses for $2 each (NOTE: Our eclipse viewing glasses are sold out). Cross your fingers for clear skies!
Educational activities will be available in the event of inclement or cloudy weather.
Passenger Pigeon
Once the most common bird in North America, the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon lived in enormous migratory flocks that some estimate were between three to five billion upon European arrival.
The species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century. Some reduction in numbers occurred because of habitat loss when the Europeans started settling further inland. The primary factor emerged when pigeon meat was commercialized as a cheap food for slaves and the poor in the 19th century, resulting in hunting on a massive scale. Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Milwaukee Public Museum has more than a dozen passenger pigeons in its Vertebrate Zoology department collection.
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Kohl's Thank You Thursday
Visit MPM during Kohl's Thank You Thursdays (KTYT)!
ALL visitors* (excluding groups) receive FREE access to the permanent exhibits of MPM on the first Thursday of every month during Kohl's Thank You Thursday.
*Children must be accompanied by an adult to receive free admission.