Jul 9, 2021 | Exhibits, Featured News, HomePageNews, Museum, News
The Highground is honored to present the “Exploring PTSD – Healing Through Art” Exhibit, on display at The Highground Museum July 24–September 28, 2021. This important exhibition seeks to provide education about PTSD – the history and current thoughts...
May 27, 2021 | Featured News, HomePageNews, Museum, News
Many German POWs that entered American-run POW camps would have the shoulder boards of their uniforms removed, especially if they were to be investigated for war crimes. Don Beseler, a U.S. soldier working in the POW camp kept these German shoulder boards as artifacts...
May 10, 2021 | Events, Exhibits, Featured News, Museum, News
The Highground hosted a grand opening ceremony for the POW/MIA exhibit on May 1, 2021, featuring guest of honor Betty Sitler. Betty’s late husband Harold “Red” Sitler was a POW for 1,009 days during the Korean War. Red was a “Tiger...
Apr 22, 2021 | Exhibits, Featured News, Museum, News
The Highground Museum will present several exhibits as part of a summer of remembering and honoring our POW/MIAs, the families that helped bring them home and the families still waiting for closure. Several exhibits will officially open to the public on Saturday,...
Jan 15, 2021 | Exhibits, Featured News, Museum, News
The “WWI–Midwest Experience in the Great War” exhibition will be at The Highground Museum from February 6-March 29, 2021. This exhibit will focus on how the Midwest U.S. was involved and affected by WWI, “The Great War”. There will be several special exhibits focusing...
Dec 17, 2020 | Featured News, HomePageNews, Museum, News
The Highground announces their Global War on Terror Gold Star Memorial Tree is now on display in the Museum. Featured are photo cards of all the men and women from Wisconsin who have been lost in combat since Desert Storm / Desert Shield to present day. The tree is...
