2013 Spring Programs
...Speaker: Hank Whipple With the tragic loss of life in April of 1912 with the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the world’s maritime community has since learned and applied the...
Lieutenant John D. Winner
WVM.1222.I008.05 | Photograph of John Winner taken outside the ration tent at the Dietersheim-Rüdesheim camp, June 1945. While May 8, 1945 marked the end of World War II in Europe,...
THE WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM JOINS SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE’S 13th ANNUAL MUSEUM DAY LIVE!
September 15, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Joins Smithsonian magazine’s 13th Annual Museum Day Live! Free Admission, explore the new World War I Centennial Exhibit,...
4th Wisconsin Cavalry
...when the regiment was transferred to Baltimore. It remained there until the latter part of February 1862. Active Service On March 6, the regiment left from to Newport News, VA...
I AM NOT INVISIBLE 3.0: WOMEN VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES
...Not Invisible Project is an annual effort to photograph and interview women veterans. Click here for the current project website: https://wisvetsmuseum.com/oral-histories/featured-interviews/i-am-not-invisible/. Unfortunately, due to the Covid pandemic, the second project...
Women’s Unequaled Service
...(WR) Bronx, NY, where she is a `boot' is WAVE Apprentice Seaman Frances Bates." 1945. 80-G-183373. National Archives Identifier: 520638 Prior to World War II, the only generally accepted role...
MEDIA COVERAGE OF WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM’S TALKING SPIRITS CEMETERY TOUR XVII
...event Talking Spirits Cemetery Tour XVII has received the following media coverage. Wisconsin State Journal (October 9, 2015) WKOW 27 News (October 10, 2015) WKOW 27 News (October 11, 2015)...
NEW TRAVELING EXHIBIT: I AM NOT INVISIBLE EXHIBIT UNVEILING
...Wisconsin’s women veterans, but it also highlights the unique stories many of them experienced in the military and afterward.” There are about 30,000 women veterans living in Wisconsin, or about...
Media Preview of New Exhibit Souvenirs of Service
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSUEM OPENS “SOUVENIRS OF SERVICE” EXHIBIT Wisconsin servicemembers have been collecting souvenirs since the Civil War. Learn the stories of the things they kept. MADISON, October 21, 2021...