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2025 Press Releases

• July 15, 2025 | Milwaukee Public Museum Completes Vertical Construction of the Nature & Culture Museum Of Wisconsin

• July 7, 2025 | Travel 65 Million Years Into the Past with Milw

That the MPM endures as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world is due in no small part to efforts of the Museum’s first Curator of Anthropology, Samuel A. Barrett (1879-1965). Barrett, born in Conway, Alaska, was a student of University of California anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the first person to receive a PhD in anthropology west of the Mississippi (Lurie 1983: 48).

Cosmic Curiosities

“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.” 
- Criss Jami, Contemporary American Author

Sensible Space Cents

Colonial Origins

Lacandon Indian burning incense, Chiapas, Mexico


Lacandon Indian, Chiapas, Mexico

Cosmic Curiosities

“We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion, especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.”
- Carl Sagan