Wisconsin Museums and Historical Societies

 to Celebrate Fourth Annual

Wisconsin Museums Week and International Museum Day

 

The Wisconsin Federation of Museums (WFM) is working with Wisconsin museums and historical societies to celebrate Wisconsin Museums Week  between May 10-18, 2007 and specifically on International Museum Day, Sunday, May 18, 2008.  
 
Created in 1977, International Museum Day is intended to provide a nucleus for museums’ creative aspirations and efforts and focus local, national and international attention on work done by museums.  It is designed to be an opportunity for professionals from all over the world to promote the roles of their prospective institutions and to reflect on a particular theme. The International Museum Day theme for 2008 is Museums and Social Change and Development.
 
Last year, 28 Wisconsin museums participated and over 32,000 people attended Wisconsin museums that week. The state-wide program will be held on site at each museum either just on Sunday, May 18 or for the entire week of May 10– 18. The activities and programs for each institution follows.  
 
For more information about Wisconsin Museums Week, please contact Dawn Scher Thomae at 414.278.6157 or thomae@mpm.edu.

 

Wisconsin Museums Week and International Museum Day 2008 Participants:

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