Milwaukee Public Museum

Please answer the following to your best ability. There will be a short discussion on your visit to MPM Tuesday in Art 403.


Enjoy your trip!


1) How is the Museum Public Museum entrance indicated? Which entrance did you use — how do you know this?

2) Hebior Mamoth, where was it found and how did it get its name? Where did you find this information?

3) Locker. Put your unnecessary belongings into locker 89 if available. What is the fee? Did your locker work?

4) When you bought your ticket you received an indicator(s) of your purchase. What is it?

Questions Pertain to area in and surrounding "Butterfly Garden"
5) What are the instructions to enter the Butterfly Garden? How was this indicated? Was there an explanation given?

6) According to this section of the museum, what is the largest and most successful group of animals on Earth?

7) Name some differences between bugs and beetles.

8) In "The Streets of Old Milwaukee" what is the "Beer that made Milwaukee famous" and how did you find this? Is it substantiated?

Questions Pertain to "Entrance to the Rain Forest" 
9) What below is not a product listed in "The Abundant Forest." a. rubber  b. lima beans  c. poison frogs  d. pears  e. vanilla  f. allspice

10) According to "Life Changes Through Growth and Development" what animal group does the cicada come from? Where do you look?

11) What kind of birds make the hanging nests?

12) In the treetops what indicates a display? Can you easily spot the creatures?

13) What is the "Model for the Rain Forest Exhibit?" Where did you find out?

Questions pertain to "A Tribute to Survival"
14) In the opening display, Buffalo, what are three ways indicated to kill a Buffalo? How did you determine this?

15) Find the street signs affixed overhead. What do they represent? Is their purpose explained?

16) In "Making a living was EASY" Why is it easy? What tribes are represented?

Questions pertain to "Wisconsin Woodlands"
17) In the birds section what does a light represent? How does this system work? Why do you think it is used? Was it easily understood? What does "this area" mean?

Question pertains to "Latin America"
18) In "Warp Weft" cloth making is explained in a diagram and sample weaving. What is the warp yarn? The weft? What is the bobbin?

Question pertains to "Africa"

19) In "Savanna Bush" which animals are NOT represented in the physical display (stuffed or sculpted)? Which one does not appear on the diagram? a. Lilac-Breasted Roller  b. Sisal  c. Baobab Tree  d. Ostrich  e. Steenbok  f. White-Headed Vulture

20) In "Peoples of the Savannah" what are the names given to the Masai tools? What does the number indicate?

21) In "People of Central Africa" How is the region indicated? 

22) In "Western Africa, MALI," What tribes are indicated? How is the map represented? Why is it not similar to "People of Central Africa?