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  • Exhibit Opening: Ancestral Women: Portraits of Elders from the 12 Tribes of Wisconsin

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    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    August 16, 2025 – November 30, 2025 In the Ancestral Women exhibit, award-winning jacquard weaver Mary Burns honors women's journeys by creating their portraits in jacquard weavings. The Ancestral Women project features elders from Wisconsin's 12 tribes, and was conceived to portray the strength of ancestral women around the world, both elders and their contemporaries, […]

  • Exhibit Opening: Women and Water: Woven Portraits from Around the World

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    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    August 16, 2025 – November 30, 2025 The Women and Water exhibit celebrates and honors water by portraying women who work with it, protect it and advocate for it. Featured are scientists, water-walkers, teachers, farmers, activists and healers, all who hold deep connections with water.

  • Workshop: Encaustic

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Saturday, August 16  |  10:30am – 12:30pm  |  Instructor: Kathy Laybourn  |  $80 ($100 for non-members)  |  Register Here Have you ever made art by experimenting with melting crayons when you were a kid? This workshop is designed for anyone who would like to be introduced to the “cold wax” encaustic method.  Students will learn to […]

  • Workshop: Cyanotypes (Printing with the Sun)

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Saturday, August 16  |  10:30am – 12:30pm  |  Instructor: Tiffany Knopow, MFA  |  $55 ($44 for non-members)  | Register Here Use the sun to make beautiful cyanotypes and photograms (sun prints) of three-dimensional objects on paper.  The result is a beautiful silhouette of the object placed on the photosensitive paper.  We will start off using nature as […]

  • Cooking Camp: Pasta

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Tuesday, August 19  |  10:00am – 12:00pm  |  $48 ($60 non-member)  |  Register Here Whether your child is a budding foodie or a kitchen novice, this workshop is the perfect opportunity for young chefs to develop essential kitchen skills, cultivate a love for cooking, and gain confidence in their culinary abilities. In this class, students will […]

  • Civil War Media Club: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

    Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Tuesday, August 19  |  6:30pm – 8:00pm  |  Instructor: Doug Dammann  | $8 ($10 for non-members)  |  Register Here Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a minister and mild-mannered professor of speech and rhetoric at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the […]

  • Cooking Camp: Spring Rolls

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Wednesday, August 20  |  10:00am – 12:00pm  |  $48 ($60 non-member)  |  Register Here In this lively workshop, kids will become junior chefs as they learn the art of assembling and rolling their very own spring rolls. Museum Staff will guide them through the process, teaching age-appropriate cooking techniques and emphasizing the importance of fresh, wholesome […]

  • Cooking Camp: Pizza

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Thursday, August 21  |  10:00am – 12:00pm  |  $48 ($60 non-member)  |  Register Here Sign your kids up for a delightful pizza-making workshop designed to turn them into pizza-making maestros! Get ready for a hands-on, cheesy adventure that will have them kneading, topping, and baking their very own personalized pizzas in an outdoor pizza oven. Kids […]

  • Museum Munchkins

    Museum Munchkins
    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Every Wednesday Morning  |  9:30am – 10:00am  |  Free Join Mr. Nick for songs, stories, and activities designed to get you and your preschooler excited about natural science and the world around us. Every week we learn together about a new animal, so there’s ALWAYS something new to discover, for kids and adults alike! No […]

  • Museums Closed Labor Day

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States +2 more

    The Kenosha Public Museum, Civil War Museum, and Dinosaur Discovery Museum will be closed Monday, September 1 for Labor Day.

  • Museum Munchkins

    Museum Munchkins
    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Every Wednesday Morning  |  9:30am – 10:00am  |  Free Join Mr. Nick for songs, stories, and activities designed to get you and your preschooler excited about natural science and the world around us. Every week we learn together about a new animal, so there’s ALWAYS something new to discover, for kids and adults alike! No […]

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    Workshop: Fall Acrylic Painting Beginner and Beyond

    Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

    Saturdays, September 6 – September 27  |  10:30am – 12:30pm  |  Instructor: Kathy Laybourn  |  $80 ($100 for non-members)  |  Register Here Be enchanted with texture and color in acrylic paint! Students will learn how to construct a painting by determining basic composition, blocking in the underlying dark, middle, and light values, and layering color. Students […]