• Museum Munchkins

    Museum Munchkins

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

    Get your preschoolers excited about science and the world around them. Each week they will learn about a different museum collection animal through songs, stories and activities. AUGUST: 23-Japanese Spider Crab; 30-Okapi SEPTEMBER: 6-Helping at Home; 13-Gerenuk; 20-Proboscius Monkey; 27-Blue Glaucus OCTOBER: 4-Helping in my Neighborhood; 11-Goblin Shark; 18-Lowland Streaked Tenrec; 25-Indian Purple Frog NOVEMBER: […]

  • Museum Munchkins

    Museum Munchkins

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

    Get your preschoolers excited about science and the world around them. Each week they will learn about a different museum collection animal through songs, stories and activities. AUGUST: 23-Japanese Spider Crab; 30-Okapi SEPTEMBER: 6-Helping at Home; 13-Gerenuk; 20-Proboscius Monkey; 27-Blue Glaucus OCTOBER: 4-Helping in my Neighborhood; 11-Goblin Shark; 18-Lowland Streaked Tenrec; 25-Indian Purple Frog NOVEMBER: […]

  • Museum Munchkins

    Museum Munchkins

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

    Get your preschoolers excited about science and the world around them. Each week they will learn about a different museum collection animal through songs, stories and activities. AUGUST: 23-Japanese Spider Crab; 30-Okapi SEPTEMBER: 6-Helping at Home; 13-Gerenuk; 20-Proboscius Monkey; 27-Blue Glaucus OCTOBER: 4-Helping in my Neighborhood; 11-Goblin Shark; 18-Lowland Streaked Tenrec; 25-Indian Purple Frog NOVEMBER: […]

  • Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

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

    Friday, October 13  |  12:00pm – 1:00pm |  Speaker: Carl Smith The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871 which destroyed the heart of the country’s rising inland metropolis and left a third of its population homeless, is one of history’s great disasters. If anything, the city’s rapid recovery was even more remarkable, revealing both […]

  • Artsy Afternoons

    Artsy Afternoon: Printing with Leaves

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

    Explore the amazing world of art through the eyes of artists and see how their artwork can inspire your own. Try new techniques and get your creativity flowing. All materials are included in this free program.  Register Here

  • Sensory Friendly Days

    Sensory Friendly Day at Kenosha Public Museum

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

    Sensory Friendly Days give visitors of all ages with complex developmental disabilities, sensory sensitivities, or on the autism spectrum a safe, comfortable environment to explore the museum exhibits during special hours before the museum opens to the general public. Where possible, our lights will be dimmed and the sound turned off. Signage will be posted […]

  • Caring for the Great Lakes with Liz Sutton

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

    Saturday, October 14  |  1:00pm – 2:00pm  |  Free  Do you know the scope of the plastic pollution in the Great Lakes? We are lucky enough to live on one of the largest freshwater sources in the world yet half of all plastic waste in the Great Lakes is in Lake Michigan. Learn about the […]

  • The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm

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

    Saturday, October 14  |  1:00pm – 2:00pm  |  Speaker: Steve Acker Steve Acker’s newest novel, The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm, tells the story of the Sherfy Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg. From the family that called the farm home to the Union and Confederate units that battled across its acres, this exhaustively researched story gives […]