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Ingersoll Physics Museum celebrates 100 years of hands-on education
Last year, more than 14,000 visitors came to the free museum to spin bicycle-wheel gyroscopes, crank electrical generators, and yank on pulleys. Read More
Valuable potato specimens transferred to Wisconsin State Herbarium
A large collection of potato specimens have been transferred from the U.S. Potato Genebank in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin State Herbarium at UW–Madison, which has 1.3 million specimens. Read More
Jim Dine mural unveiled at the Chazen
A monumental new mural by iconic American artist Jim Dine will be on view permanently at the Chazen Museum of Art after an unveiling on June 22. Read More
Specimens from George Washington Carver discovered at UW–Madison
At least 25 specimens of fungi that infect plants, collected more than a century ago, were found in the Wisconsin State Herbarium. Read More
Libraries, Arts Institute and Chazen celebrate Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016
UW-Madison was selected as the Wisconsin host site for “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” a national traveling exhibition. Read More
Partners preserve and expand accessibility of Silver Buckle Press
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will house and care for the historic Silver Buckle Press and its collection. Read More
Galapagos tortoise species ID’d from specimen in UW museum
A new species of giant Galapagos tortoise, revealed this week in a study conducted by scientists at Yale University, also happened to be lurking in the collections of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Zoological Museum, it turns out. Read More
$28 million to support art education: Chazens pledge pieces from personal collection
Alumni Jerome and Simona Chazen have pledged to give $35 million to advance the Chazen Museum and art education on campus. Read More
Wisconsin’s fish – all of them – star in new poster series
Fully grown, the least darter is one inch long — Wisconsin’s smallest fish. The lake sturgeon, which can grow to more than 6 feet in length, is Wisconsin’s biggest. In between are 181 other species, and each and every one of them will soon have its moment in the spotlight, thanks to scientific illustrator Kandis Elliot. Read More
Museum featuring works of UW’s John Steuart Curry
Many on campus get to see the works of John Steuart Curry often. But people off-campus have an opportunity to see his artwork through Sept. 14 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend. Read More
Oldest bit of Earth’s crust among attractions at Geology Museum open house
It promises to be a trip through geologic time: from a look at the oldest piece of Earth's crust, to the earliest smells on our planet, to a recently crash-landed Martian meteorite. Read More
IceCube feature film to premiere in Milwaukee planetarium show
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is one of a kind. Built deep within the Antarctic ice, it is the world’s largest neutrino detector. Now, thanks to a collaboration between the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and the Milwaukee Public Museum, it boasts another unique aspect: its own planetarium show. Read More
International astrophysics reaches Milwaukee
Trips to the South Pole usually require a lot of specialized equipment, but Nils Irland's packing list for his November 2012 visit included some items unusual even by those standards: a specially designed video camera, extra batteries, and lots and lots of data storage. Read More
“Carbon playground” converts atoms into fun
A new playground that opened Oct. 25 at the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, Ill. is the first in the world built around unique structures formed by the element carbon. Read More