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John C. Pritzlaff was an immigrant from Pomerania, Prussia, who came to Milwaukee in 1841, before Wisconsin was a state. [1] In 1850 he, August Suelflohn, and Henry Nazro opened a small hardware store on Third Street called John Pritzlaff and Company. Pritzlaff became the sole owner in 1866. [2]
A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing. A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house. Often, labels are ...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Milwaukee: Milwaukee: Lake Michigan: Art: Collections include 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art Milwaukee Beer Museum: Milwaukee: Milwaukee: Lake Michigan: Commodity - Beer
Thanks to a $3.54 million donation, an endowment has been set up to support children's programs at the art museum. Milwaukee Art Museum will be free for kids 12 and younger 'in perpetuity,' thanks ...
A twenty-two foot model of the LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, sister ship of the LZ 129 Hindenburg was on display for many years, but has been moved to the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh as of 2021. [1] It is operated by The Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight, a non-profit corporation formed to foster and promote the museum and its exhibits.
The museum closed in 2010 when the building it was located in was sold. [3] As of 2015, the disposition of the museum's collection and archives is currently under the charge of Debra Eisner Hackbarth. Serious inquiries regarding the future home of the collection or specific exhibits can be made directly to Debra.
The Milwaukee County Historical Society, also known as MCHS, is a local historical society in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Founded in 1935, the organization was formed to preserve, collect, recognize, and make available materials related to Milwaukee County history. It is located in downtown Milwaukee in the former Second Ward Savings Bank ...
The majority of these specimens come from the Silurian Racine Dolomite Formation and the Devonian Milwaukee Formation in the vicinity of southeastern Wisconsin. Preserved mostly as internal molds in dolomite, these fossils include a wide range of Silurian marine invertebrate groups including trilobites, crinoids, tabulate and rugose corals ...