Press Releases

Recent Press Releases 

• The Kellogg Family Foundation Donates $10 Million to Support Future Museum, Names Gallery in Honor of Winifred and Spencer Kellogg

• Milwaukee Public Museum's Summer Connections Program to Provide Free Educational Outreach, Access to Museum for 450 Milwaukee Youth

• Milwaukee Public Museum Wraps Up Gallery Unveilings For Future Museum

• Scientists, Nature Enthusiasts to Race to Find Species Throughout Havenwoods State Forest During Annual BioBlitz Competition

• Milwaukee Public Museum Provides First Look at Future Museum Exhibit Concepts, Rainforest Gallery, Vivarium and Rooftop Terrace

• Milwaukee Public Museum Provides First Look at Future Museum Exhibit Concepts, Living in a Dynamic World Gallery, Two Mixing Zones

• MPM Celebrates Construction Milestone at Future Museum Site

• Milwaukee Public Museum Provides First Look at Future Museum Exhibit Concepts, Milwaukee Revealed Gallery

• Milwaukee Public Museum Provides First Look at Future Museum Exhibit Concepts, Wisconsin Journey Gallery

• Milwaukee Public Museum Selects Noble Catering & Events as New Exclusive Events Caterer

• Milwaukee Public Museum Provides First Look at Future Museum Exhibit Concepts, Time Travel Gallery

• Milwaukee Public Museum to Share Future Museum Gallery Concepts, Exhibit Examples Throughout Spring

• Food & Froth Fundraiser Returns After Two-Year Hiatus

• Live-Animal Exhibition Survival of the Slowest Explores Counterintuitive Evolutionary Traits

• Milwaukee Public Museum Announces Owner's Representatives For Future Museum Construction

• Milwaukee Public Museum to Host Virtual Town Hall About the Future Museum

• MPM Honors Native American Heritage With Special Programming Throughout November

• Milwaukee Public Museum Seeks Community Feedback to Inform the Next Phase of Future Museum Design

• MPM and MIAD Collaborate on New Mural in Africa Gallery

• Milwaukee Public Museum Secures Reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums

• Milwaukee Public Museum Unveils Renderings For New Museum Building, Kicks Off ‘Wisconsin Wonders’ Capital Campaign

• Milwaukee Public Museum Hires Three Scientific and Research Curators to Lead Botany, History and Anthropology, and Zoology Departments

• Ko-Thi Dance Company to Host African Drum Workshop at MPM

• 6 Surprising Facts About How T. rex Came to Be the Dominating Dino

• UW-Parkside Receives Funding From Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin to Train Next Generation of Water Scientists

• Milwaukee County Paves The Way For Museum Re-Accreditation, Supports New Museum Project

• Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family Debuts at MPM

• Milwaukee Public Museum Hires Director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)

• MPM to Close Temporarily Due to COVID-19-Related Staffing Shortage

• Streets of Old Milwaukee & European Village Decked Out for Holidays

• Weather and Math Day Return to American Family Field

• Preview NASA's Upcoming Mission to Launch World's Most Powerful Telescope

• Milwaukee Public Museum Open on Wednesdays, Starting November 17

• Milwaukee Public Museum Offers Free Admission to All Wisconsin Tribal Members in Recognition of Native American Heritage Month

• Voyage to the Deep at Milwaukee Public Museum

• Milwaukee Public Museum Open on Mondays, Starting October 11

• Milwaukee Public Museum Announces New Vice President of Finance and Operations

• Milwaukee Public Museum Researcher Partners with UNC-Asheville Academic, Naturalist to Identify New Species of Boa in Dominican Republic

• MPM Butterfly Wing Reopens Thursday, August 19

• Cultural Institutions and Businesses in Milwaukee’s Hospitality and Performing Arts Industries Urge Milwaukee-area Residents to Get Vaccinated

• MPM Planetarium Reopens Thursday, July 22

• MPM Builds Momentum with New Vice Presidents

• 12 Exhibitions Not To Miss in Wisconsin This Summer

• The Milwaukee Public Museum and Kohl’s Invite You To See Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition

• The Milwaukee Public Museum and America's Black Holocaust Museum Invite You to Take a Journey Through the Life of Nelson Mandela at the U.S. Debut of Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition

• The Milwaukee Public Museum Restarts Kohl’s Thank You Thursday on March 18

• Milwaukee Museums Reopening to the Public in March

• The Milwaukee Public Museum and Kohl’s Invite you to Meet the Watson Family

• Milwaukee Public Museum Announces Partners to Design and Build Future Home

• The Milwaukee Public Museum and Kohl’s Invite You To Celebrate Winter

• Milwaukee Public Museum Announces Site for Future Home

• Milwaukee Public Museum to Reopen to the Public on August 21

• The Milwaukee Public Museum's Dinosaurs Are Lonely!

• Final Days for MPM’s Moveable Feast 2.0

• Win a President’s Behind-the-Scenes Tour at the Milwaukee Public Museum 

• The Milwaukee Public Museum Closes to the Public

• 18th Annual Braille Games Set for Thursday, March 12 at the Milwaukee Public Museum

• Northwestern Mutual Makes $1 Million Grant to Milwaukee Public Museum

• Is T. rex a Scaredy Cat? Find out on Friday the 13th at the MPM Adult Sleepover with Special Spooky Programming

• Meet the Watson Family on Kohl’s Thank You Thursday

• Celebrate Beer’s History – and Make Some of Your Own – at the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Food & Froth Fundraiser

• Go on an Eight-Legged Adventure at the Milwaukee Public Museum on Kohl’s Thank You Thursday

• Milwaukee Public Museum Adds Chief Planning Officer

• MPM to Give Free Admission to Tribal Members and Schools During November 2019

• MPM Unveils New Accessibility Accommodation, a Sensory Room for Visitors

• Face Your Fears at New Museum Exhibit, Spiders Alive!

• Milwaukee Public Museum Curator Awarded $4.3 Million Dollar Grant

• Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 during Moon Month at the Milwaukee Public Museum

• Milwaukee Public Museum Announces New President & CEO

• Scientists Descend on Riveredge Nature Center for Milwaukee Public Museum’s 5th Annual BioBlitz

• Toxin or Tonic? The Power of Poison Opens March 2 at the Milwaukee Public Museum

• Milwaukee Public Museum Pick Your Poison Gala Breaks Records 

• Hidden in Plain Sight for Over a Century,
  Researchers Use Museum Collections for Discovery of a New Bamboo Genus

• MPM Wins Transformation Leadership Award for Stormwater Saving Courtyard

• MPM to Give Free Admission to Tribal Members and Schools During Fall 2018

• Take the Trip of a Lifetime with the Milwaukee Public Museum!

• Milwaukee Public Museum to Host 2017 Entomological Collections Management Workshop

• Frogs! Toad-aly Takes Over MPM On October 6

• Kohl’s Donates $1.5 Million to Milwaukee Public Museum

• IMLS Awards Funding for the MPM’s Ordovician Fossil Digitization Project

• MPM Announces 2017 John J. Brander and Christine E. Rundblad Research Fellowship Winners