As Seen In Wisconsin - Filed under 'museums'

Green Bay and Pittsburgh museums make a bet on the Super Bowl

Posted on January 28, 2011

Art museums in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh are wagering loans of major works of art based on the outcome of the Super Bowl.

Milwaukee Art Museum Director Daniel Keegan, an avid Packers fan, is betting "Boating on the Yerres" by Gustave Caillebotte (ky-yuh-BUHT'). Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky is wagering "Bathers with Crab," by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (ren'-WAH). She's a Steelers fan.

In a statement, Keegan says he looks forward to displaying the Renoir where the public can be reminded "of the superiority of the Green Bay Packers."

via host.madison.com

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Milwaukee museum to host mummies exhibit

Posted on July 28, 2010

photo by drini on Flickr

The largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled is coming to Milwaukee later this year.

``Mummies of the World'' will be at the Milwaukee Public Museum from Dec. 17 through May 30.

It features a collection of 150 real human and animal mummies and objects from South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Egypt.

via lacrossetribune.com

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Wisconsin Space Rocks

Posted on May 1, 2009

Here are some great "space rocks" which Drew sent in. The photos are from a geology museum at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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