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Today, at the Neville Public Museum…

Today, I glanced upon the Neville Museum’s temporary exhibits.

June 14, 2026

2–3 minutes

When Green Bay, Wisconsin is mentioned, a historic football team comes to mind. Yet, the city’s roots stretch beyond the Green Bay Packer’s inception. Take the Neville Public Museum for instance. This collection of northeastern Wisconsin artifacts has served the public since…well, before Curly Lambeau founded his band of professional athletes.

Originally housed inside the Brown County Library, the Neville Public Museum has grown into a two story structure, and that building overlooks the Fox River.

Even if the building is large, the permanent exhibit seems crammed together.

Yeah, I feel that the exhibits follow no logical order, and displays like a Cold War exhibition fuse awkwardly with an art showcase.

Yet, it does tell tales of Green Bay’s earlier ways of living.

Aside from that, if we explore the museum’s temporary exhibits, we’ll discover artifacts that celebrate an approaching festival taking place all across America: the nation’s 250th birthday.

It has a few cases of Revolutionary War relics, and it celebrates the founding of Wisconsin as well.

After that, if we climb back upstairs we’ll find…

Whoa! Did you see that?! It’s an Ice Age showcase, one that mixes art with the geological happening that shaped most of Wisconsin.

Last but not least, and I definitely mean not least, this next segment was actually my favorite, we have the history of food…well, food sources that pertain to northeastern Wisconsin.

This exhibit ranges from ancient hunting tools

to 19th century immigrant farmers

and the tools they used for food preparation.

There’s even a bit on more modern immigrants.

What’s more, There’s a bit about restaurants.

That doesn’t include everything, but I think you get the point.

When I look back at my visit today, when I think of the Neville’s showcases, I realize that this is truly a resource that tells of northeastern Wisconsin’s culture, and northeastern Wisconsin culture is unique. At the bottom of this page, I’ll list the temporary exhibits, and I’ll tell you how long they’ll last.

PS. There is a science exhibit on the first floor, but it’s been there for so long, I feel it’s a part of the permanent exhibits. Though it does house information on things like weather patterns, ones that are specific to northeast Wisconsin, and how Wisconsin’s climate impacts its residents.