• SPARK!

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

    This monthly program engages participants in lively conversations, storytelling, object handling, and other multi-sensory activities that relate. Space is limited so reservations are appreciated. For more information or to register, please call 262-653-4432 or send an email to spark@kenosha.org Kindness in a Cup of Coffee Friday, March 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  No single item of […]

  • Second Friday Lecture: New Philadelphia, Illinois: Seven Ways to Freedom

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

    Friday, May 9  |  12pm – 1pm  |  Presented by Dr. Kate Williams-McWorter and Dr. Gerald McWorter From a distance, New Philadelphia looked like a typical Illinois pioneer town of the mid-1800s. But New Philadelphia was not a typical pioneer town. As travelers got closer, they would find a small but bustling community where Black […]

  • Museum Easter Hours

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

    Kenosha Public Museum, Civil War Museum, and Dinosaur Discovery Museum Easter Weekend Hours:  Friday, April 18  |  Closed Saturday, April 19  |  Open Sunday, April 20  |  Closed

  • Museum Easter Hours

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

    Kenosha Public Museum, Civil War Museum, and Dinosaur Discovery Museum Easter Weekend Hours:  Friday, April 18  |  Closed Saturday, April 19  |  Open Sunday, April 20  |  Closed

  • SPARK!

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

    This monthly program engages participants in lively conversations, storytelling, object handling, and other multi-sensory activities that relate. Space is limited so reservations are appreciated. For more information or to register, please call 262-653-4432 or send an email to spark@kenosha.org Kindness in a Cup of Coffee Friday, March 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  No single item of […]

  • Second Friday Lecture: Two Histories Merge at the Underground Railroad: Abolitionists Seth Paine and Harriet Tubman

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

    Friday, April 11  |  12pm – 1pm  |  Presented by Nancy Shumm and E. Olivia Darden Author of The Anointed One, Nancy Schumm, and Narrator of the Audiobook, E. Olivia Darden will present Seth Paine and Harriet Tubman in a new light focusing on Seth’s work on the Midwest Underground Railroad, black history, and his collaboration […]

  • Workshop: Beginning Genealogy

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

    Sunday, April 6  |  1:30pm – 3:30pm  |  $20 ($25 for non-members)  |  Instructor: Jean Hoffmann  |  Register Here At this workshop, attendees will learn the basics of family history research. What’s the difference between genealogy, ancestry, and lineage? What does first cousin once removed mean? We’ll discuss the answers to these and other questions, as […]

  • Kenosha Shipwrecks

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

    Saturday, April 5  |  1:30pm – 2:30pm  |  Presented by Brendon Baillod This program is being held in conjunction withy the Kenosha County Archaeological Society Brendon Baillod is an award-winning maritime historian based in Madison, Wisconsin.  He is the current president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association and the author of Fathoms Deep But Not Forgotten: […]

  • “Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg

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

    Saturday, March 22  |  1pm – 2pm  |  Presented by Ron Kirkwood The blood stains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army of the Potomac’s XI Corps hospital at the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg have long since departed. […]

  • SPARK!

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

    This monthly program engages participants in lively conversations, storytelling, object handling, and other multi-sensory activities that relate. Space is limited so reservations are appreciated. For more information or to register, please call 262-653-4432 or send an email to spark@kenosha.org Kindness in a Cup of Coffee Friday, March 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  No single item of […]