Earn Merit Badges through the Scouting Heritage Museum - Are you interested in the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge or the Collections Merit Badge?
- Three Harbors Council Scout Heritage Museum can help you get there.
- Any one of the volunteer staff can help you with a portion of either merit badge. Simply coming to the museum covers a requirement.
 
Trade-O-Ree The Scout Heritage Museum invites you to the 45th Annual Trade-O-Ree, Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the Milwaukee Scout Service Center, 330 South 84th Street, Milwaukee. This event makes a great field trip for packs and troops. See thousands of Scout memorabilia, artifacts and collector items. Admission is FREE!
The official 40th Anniversary Scout Heritage Museum Trade-O-Ree patch
Northwoods Camps
Commemorative Patches Sets of the final LeFeber Northwoods Camps and Robert S. Lyle Scout Reservation patches are available at the Kenosha and Milwaukee Scout Service Centers. The price for the two-patch set will be $10.00 with a limit of no more than three sets per person. The sale of these patches will benefit the Scout Heritage Museum.
Museum Tours
The Scout Heritage Museum is managed and staffed by a group of dedicated volunteers who can provide you and your unit with a guided tour, as well as answer your questions if you just want to stop in for a few minutes during your visit to the Milwaukee Scout Service Center or the National Scout Shop. Posted museum hours are Friday's from 1 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and on Saturday's from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The museum is closed on Saturday's from June through August. Since volunteers staff the museum it is best to call ahead. Please contact Marianne Mikush Monday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at (414) 443-2870 or by clicking here. Tours are free.
Advancements Available By visiting the Museum and speaking to one of our staff the following can be earned: Cub Scout Advancements Tigers: Tigers: Sky is the Limit - Find out about 2 astronauts who were Scouts
- James Lovell display
- Tiger Tales
- Visit a historical museum
Wolfs: Collections and Hobbies - Visit a museum that displays different collections or models
Bears: - Bear claws
- Knife Safety -Knife display
Webelos: - Scouting Adventure -Tie a square knot, 2 half inches
- Art Explosion -Visit an art museum -Ben Hunt tie slides
- Looking Back, Looking Forward -Create a record of the history of Scouting
Boy Scout Advancements Scouting Heritage Merit Badge: 1, 2b, 3, 4c, 5, 8 partial
Collections Merit Badge: | Current Exhibit Update - December 2024 Boy Scout Blocks The Scout Heritage Museum’s’ current temporary display is a collection of colorful Boy Scout Blocks created by the McLoughlin Brothers Inc.  McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was a New York publishing firm that pioneered the systematic use of color printing technologies in children's books, particularly between 1858 and 1920. The firm's publications served to popularize illustrators including Thomas Nast, William Momberger, Justin H. Howard, Palmer Cox, and Ida Waugh. The artistic and commercial roots of the McLoughlin firm were first developed by John McLoughlin, Jr. (1827-1905), who as a teenager learned wood engraving and printing while working for Elton & Co.--a New York firm formed by his father John McLoughlin, Sr. and engraver/printer Robert H. Elton. Elton & Co. (active 1840-1851) printed and issued toy books, comic almanacs, and valentines. Between 1850 and 1851, John McLoughlin, Sr. and Robert H. Elton retired--giving John Jr. control of the business. He started to publish picture books under his own name, and soon acquired the printing blocks of Edward Dunigan, a New York picture book publisher for whom Robert Elton had executed many wood engravings.
By 1863, the firm had expanded from its original headquarters at 24 Beekman St. to include 30 Beekman St. John McLoughlin, Jr. continually experimented with color illustration--progressing from hand stenciling, to the mechanical relief process of zinc etching, to the planographic process of chromolithography. McLoughlin firm opened a color printing factory at South 11th and Berry St. in Brooklyn that employed as many as 75 artists, and is the probable site of the firm's experimentation with color reproduction techniques. After John McLoughlin, Jr.'s death in 1905, the McLoughlin firm suffered from the loss of his artistic and commercial leadership. In 1920, McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was sold to Milton Bradley and enjoyed some success in the 1930s with mechanical paper toys called "Jolly Jump-Ups". The McLoughlin division of Milton Bradley stopped production during World War II.
LeFeber Camp Staff Paddles A new addition to the museum is a display of LeFeber Northwoods Camps Staff canoe paddles. Each paddle has the names of the staff for a particular year. These staffers helped generations of Scouts earn merit badges, experience nature and build lasting friendships all in the northwoods of Wisconsin. The paddles are hanging from the ceiling...You have to look up! 
Museum Committee Membership If you have an interest and want to learn about joining the museum's volunteer team, please contact Marianne Mikush at (414) 443-2870 or by clicking here. |
