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Behind the scenes: Milwaukee Public Museum

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Tiger moths are part of MPM’s collection of 290,000 specimens of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Tiger moths are part of MPM’s collection of 290,000 specimens of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). Credit: Jake Hill

Tucked away inside Milwaukee Public Museum’s 400,000-square-foot building – behind the “Streets of Old Milwaukee,” the Puelicher Butterfly Garden and displays of ancient artifacts and life-size dioramas – staff and researchers are hard at work keeping Wisconsin’s natural history alive.  In a lab on the fourth floor, postdoctoral research fellow Nick Dowdy extracts DNA from

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