New Museum Project

...validated WVM’s future program requirements, location options, and related matters. Concept A of that study, which involves acquiring the museum site and constructing a new building on the museum’s current...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM ANNOUNCES 2016 LIST OF EVENTS

...will guide attendees on a tour of the gravesites. New this year are Saturday Night Self-Guided Candlelit Tours and the ability to purchase tickets online. More details will be available...

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The Archivist Chronicles: Civil War History Mystery

...visite—with similar holes in them. Could they be related? One of the photographs, showing a middle aged woman, was labeled on the back as “My Mother, Mrs. Charles H. Larkin,...

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D-Day + 70: Honoring Wisconsin’s Heroes by Kevin Hampton

...more about Wisconsin’s veterans and their stories, search our collections online at https://bit.ly/1lbdgNq, or visit our Research Center located on the 3rd floor of 30 W. Mifflin Street in Madison....

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The Polar Bear Expedition by Andrea Hoffman

...insignia for the ANREF, and was worn by Ramsay on his coat for the remainder of his service. See more of the Ralph E. Ramsay collection in our online database....

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John Greening: A Veteran in the Spotlight by Andrea Hoffman

...the Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s permanent collection to preserve his notable story. You can learn more about Greening’s archival and object collections by visiting the WVM website in our online catalog....

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Volunteer Opportunities

...curators with collections management inventory, number, and research artifacts. Reference Assistant: Use historical resources to research Wisconsin veterans. Enter that information into databases and other online resources. Oral History: the...

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TOURS

...least two weeks in advance by completing the Online Tour Reservation Form on this page. Guided tours are often conducted by volunteer docents, many of whom are veterans whose perspectives...

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Book a Speaker

...the student how to use the Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC) for cataloging oral histories on WorldCat.Org. The content covers using navigating and creating bibliographic and local holdings records for...

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Wisconsin’s veterans remember 9/11

...parents. For the rest us, too young to remember, trying to grasp the experience of those who lived through September 11, 2001, could involve watching online videos, reading social media...

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