Milwaukee Public Museum

I just visited the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin.  What a great museum it is.  In fact, I would say it was one of the best museums in regards to archaeology from cultures around the world.  I would say that it ranks up with my favorite museums including the Chicago Oriental Institute Museum and The Chicago Field Museum.  They had many artifacts from ancient cultures around the world along with some replicas of famous ancient artifacts.  If you look at their site, they are announcing plans to bring in hologram technology as part of their displays to further improve education of ancient cultures.

http://www.mpm.edu/

http://www.mpm.edu/collections/research/grants/

The Milwaukee Public Museum is planning a major new exhibition centered on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, utilizing not only current information and interpretations, but new technologies beyond traditional presentation methods. For one element of this initiative, the Museum was awarded funding from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to develop a proof-of-concept for a 3-D high-definition, full color true holographic or holographic-like exhibit of a virtual mummy unwrapping. Egyptian mummies have been a long-term research interest of the Project Director.

I took some photographs while I was there and would like to show you them.

Greek Pottery and Artifacts:

Some Artifacts From Aztalan:

The above pottery piece from Aztalan has a design on it that is very similar to Celtic design.  Here is the entrance stone to NewGrange (Irish megalithic structure) with the spiral pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newgrange,_Ireland.jpg

The spiral was used extensively in Irish and other Celtic culture.  They also showed an object called the Aztalan brick.  It was made from clay and straw and looked like concrete when hardened. 

I will continue to post some of the amazing pictures I took at the museum.  There were artifacts from cultures I did not know about from ancient Mesoamerica and South America.  Once again, I would say what a great job the Milwaukee Public Museum has done.

By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newgrange,_Ireland.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange