Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum

Join us August 12th at 5:30 for a special presentation hosted by Jeff Spang and Phantom Lake YMCA! Phantom Lake: 130 Years of Impacting Waukesha County Kids and Families Phantom Lake YMCA Camp, the oldest YMCA camp in North America, this year marks it’s 130th anniversary in Waukesha County. Founded in 1896 on 10 acres along the shores of Phantom Lake in Mukwonago, the camp has survived two World Wars, two pandemics and

Come join us for our History After Dark in August! Behind Enemy Lines? German Prisoners-of-War and German-American Communities Often, accounts of and reflections on World War II keep the division across the Atlantic binary. There were Americans, and there were Germans, identities separated from one another especially as the atrocities of the Third Reich continued to come light. But what about those Americans with German ancestry

Join us for our monthly Lunch and Learn at the museum this September! Eyeball to Eyeball: How Personal Interests Shaped Cold War History in Waukesha and Around the World 70 years after the establishment of M-74 (Nike missile base) in Waukesha, Dr. Kimberly Redding will help us explore the complexity of Cold War policies. While the Soviet-U.S. rivalry stole the headlines, interpersonal calculations also shaped decisions – in Waukesha,