Blog Archive for December, 2007

Hello All,
Well, 2007 is almost over and it was quite a year for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Our attendance and outreach surpassed 100,000 this year; our program attendance broke all records, with over 3,800 people attending events here at the Museum and elsewhere; and, our online presence grew exponentially with the launch of our new Foundation website (which you are looking at currently) and the streaming of our 7-7-7 programs on Wisconsin Eye (www.wiseye.org).

2008 looks to be a great year as well. We plan on curating no fewer than three photo exhibitions this year, including the Robert Ellison photography retrospective, “An Instinct For Light,” which opens on February 5. Our program schedule is starting to fill up as well, so check out the MUSEUM PROGRAMS tab on the site. We will be covering Vietnam and the Cold War in February and March. On March 31, “In the Belly of the Dragon: Life and Death in I Corps” will close - we cannot believe its run is almost over! Come April and May, look for a bevy of programs on the Civil War, including two organic programs on our new cannon and our vast collection of regimental battle flags. I know I have said this before, but I PROMISE to finish up the Civil War Bracketology so we can know once and for all who the best Wisconsin Civil War regiment was.

Thanks to all of you who attended a program or three, visited the museum, visited the website, or did anything remotely associated with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum or even military history as a whole. We truly enjoy organizing programs for you to attend, and we hope make our events web accessible to those of you that cannot make it to Madison very soon. There are a lot of exciting things happening right now, so stay tuned!