museums

Less than an hour outside of Milwaukee, there's a unique, roadside attraction called Redner's Rescued Cat Figurine Mewseum. The small, Menomonee Falls museum is a celebration of cat artwork, featuring a wide array of cat figurines, paintings, decorative plates, and is even home to 9 cats.

This week’s Bubbler Talk goes to the Grohmann Museum on the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s campus. The roof of the building is lined with bronze statues of workers, which sometimes face inward and other times look out towards the street. We'll learn about the museum's history and why the statues were designed to turn.

Nick Drain uses tinted car windows to explore how Black people find ways to make themselves invisible as a means of protection.

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.

A new exhibition at Jewish Museum Milwaukee sheds light on the history of scrap recycling.

Borders are complicated, and a new exhibit at the Museum of Wisconsin Art is exploring the idea of borders through art created by immigrants who now call Wisconsin home.

Kenner toys produced hundreds of action figures, vehicles and playsets featured in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi from 1978 to 1985. Today, these toys are as iconic as the movies themselves.

At the end of the exhibit, attendees are challenged to take part in the My Mandela Pledge. Ellen Censky explains that the pledge asks people to take 67 minutes and use that time to complete an act of service.

Only 25% of African Americans in Milwaukee are registered organ, tissue and eye donors, but in Wisconsin more than 2,000 people are currently on the transplant list, and 400 of them are Black.

For cultural institutions, like the Milwaukee Art Museum, the COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly painful. Like other groups, the museum closed its…