UWM Thomas A. Greene Museum receives international designation

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) commission on geoheritage has named the UWM Thomas A. Greene collection one of the 11 most important geological collections in the world. Visit the International Commission on Geoheritage website to learn more.

This designation is given to museum collections that have “high scientific, historical and/or educational relevance for geological sciences” that are worthy of preservation and provide original source research. The designation was bestowed based on the recommendations of more than 700 experts from 80 nations.

The Greene collection is the only one in the United States with this gold standard mark of excellence at this time.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.