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Annual Report & Public Records
Dear Friends:
The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) is one of the leading natural and human history museums in the United States. The 4 million objects in our collection have the power to teach and inspire, and to connect us all — young and old — to the world around us.
DataBlitz
Welcome to MPM’s DataBlitz!
The DataBlitz is an event where you, the museum visitor, get to help us by transcribing scientific data from our collections. Like MPM's BioBlitzes, we want to see how many natural history specimen records can be transcribed in a single day. Unlike the BioBlitz, however, where the public comes to see scientists in action, we are inviting you to do the action!
This event will take place on Saturday, October 22, 2016 from 11:00am-3:00pm.
The Hebior Mammoth
Found less than 30 miles from the Milwaukee Public Museum on a farm in the small town of Paris in Kenosha County, the Hebior Mammoth is among a group of important finds that help date the early presence of humans in North America.
In the early 1990s, a group from Marquette University, led by David Overstreet, was excavating a different mammoth in Kenosha County when John Hebior, a farmer living near the excavation site, approached the researche
Planetarium Newsletter - May 2023
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Cosmic Curiosities
“At night in this waterless air, the stars come down just out of reach of your fingers.”
- John Steinbeck, American Writer
November: Native American Heritage
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.