Milwaukee Public Museum

MPM President and CEO Ellen Censkyv talk about what guests will find familiar and what they’ll discover for the first time when the new museum opens by early 2027.

Alexa Alfaro, the co-founder and co-owner of Meat on the Street, talks about moving into the Milwaukee Public Museum.

The Milwaukee Public Museum has unveiled two exhibition concepts for the future museum, which is slated to open in 2026.

Dawn Scher Thomae of the Milwaukee Public Museum explains the role that games play in Native Indigenous communities.

The new Milwaukee Public Museum is slated to open in 2026, with its groundbreaking expected late next year. For its interior design, the museum created a public survey to explore ideas for exhibitions and experiences.

The Milwaukee Public Museum unveiled renderings of its new design. Inspired by geological formations at Mill Bluff State Park, and three downtown rivers, designers hope to leave people with an emotional and intellectual experience.

If you’ve gone to the Milwaukee Public Museum, you’ve probably explored the Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit and may even have a favorite display. Poet and MPM Education Programs Coordinator Richard Hedderman shares more insight and a poem in honor of 414 Day.

Earlier this year, the Milwaukee Public Museum hired Dr. Rhoan Garnett as its director of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. Garnett shares more about settling into his new home in Milwaukee and how he envisions building an inclusive culture at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Dinosaurs are thought to have dominated the earth for more than 150 million years. We’re still learning so much about how they lived and what caused them to start dying off, but what has become clear is they never truly left.

For this week’s Bubbler Talk, question asker Dan Currier of Whitewater wants to know about a past iconic figure of Milwaukee: Where did the totem pole that stood in front the old and the new Milwaukee Public Museum come from?