October marks LGBTQ+ History Month!
Check out our special events as we celebrate LGBTQ+ histories from both near and far here at MPM.
Special Events
“Beyond Binaries: LGBTQ+ Histories through Time and Place” Museum Tour
Take an hour-long tour exploring different ways of being!
This tour focuses on gender expression throughout time and space and how it relates to roles within communities. By recontextualizing our own exhibits, guests can reflect on how museums present culture and think critically on socially constructed ideas.
Tour highlights: the history of Milwaukee; the origin of the term Two-Spirit; third gender identities in Hawai'i and Samoa; the first recorded gay partnership in Ancient Egypt; and more! Our hope is that guests can connect with themselves and understand that human expressions are incredibly vast.
Recommended for ages 15+ based on sexually suggestive references from history. For guests under 15, parental guidance or approval is recommended.
Date and Time
Thursdays, October 1 and 8
5:30 and 6:45 p.m.
Tickets and Reservations
$10 per person
These tours are sold out.
Bonus Learning Opportunities
At the Museum: LGBTQ+ history in Milwaukee
Learn about Milwaukee's LGBTQ+ history with a panel timeline of important events, people, and places located on MPM’s First Floor. FREE with admission!
At home: LGBTQ+ history reading list
Download this bookmark loaded with a booklist curated by MPM education staff!
Sponsored by the Birch Lodge Fund at Cream City Foundation
Across from the elevators on the Third Floor, visitors can explore a life-size diorama of a recreation of the Merced Market in Antigua, Guatemala during the mid-20th century. The Spanish erected a church there in the 18th century which suffered damage from repeated earthquakes through the centuries. You can see the fallen and broken architectural features in the background and foreground of the diorama.
Robert Zingg and Wendell Bennett were graduate students at the University of Chicago when they led an anthropological expedition to study the Tarahumara in Chihuahua, Mexico for nine months in 1930-31.