Donate to the Collection
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum preserves and shares stories of Wisconsin veterans from the Civil War to the present. The museum will consider for donation military items such as dog tags, personalized items, and souvenirs as well as diaries, letters, photographs, military records, and training material. We also collect oral histories of service members.
How to Make a Donation
Thank you for considering a donation to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. To review donation offers and select items that best help us tell the unique stories of Wisconsin service members, donation offers will follow that formal process noted below:
- Complete the form to the right to begin the donation process. If you would like to upload a photo, it must be smaller than 1 MB.
- Once the form is submitted, wait for the acknowledgement at the bottom of the form to verify that the form has been accepted.
- Once the form is received by the museum, a member of the intake team will contact you to talk about the donation and next steps, usually within two to six weeks.
- Please DO NOT mail or bring items to the museum without making prior arrangements.
- If you have questions or need assistance, please email us
For more information on our intake process as well as what kinds of items we are looking for, and what we may not need, please see our brochure here.
DO YOU KNOW ANYONE?
As part of a collections assessment, the staff has identified eras and actions where the museum collection lacks content. If you know anyone who can help fill the gaps noted below, please have them contact us.
KOREA
All (mostly due to age of the veterans)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dominican Republic 1965
Guantanamo Bay 1898-present
VIETNAM
Advisory Period/Advisors
Ia Drang 1965
Lam Son 719
Linebacker I & II (especially II, the Christmas Bombing)
Easter Offensive 1972
Phnom Penh
Mayaguez
POST VIETNAM
Beirut 1983
Grenada 1983
Panama 1989
Haiti 1990s and 2010s
RECENT
New Dawn
Iraq Drawdown
ISIS
Syria 2014-present
Anything after the fall of Kabul