April10^th - June 19^th

Experience your favorite story books from a new perspective with the Wizards of Pop. This children’s book exhibition includes over 60 images from 13 picture and pop-up books by celebrated children’s book creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.

The exhibition features innovatively engineered, three-dimensional pages from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, Cinderella, STAR WARS: A Pop-up Guide to the Galaxies, and Young Naturalist's Pop-Up Handbook: Beetlesand Butterflies, as well as imaginative two-dimensional artworks from such books as Saint Valentine, The Blizzard's Robe, and The Paper Dragon. The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas organized the exhibition. This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Past Exhibitions

Big Ideas/Small Packages:  Magnificent Glass Under 20

November 1, 2008 through February 21, 2009

This exhibition honors the paperweight tradition on which Bergstrom-Mahler Museum was founded. It explores the processes of glass techniques used in paperweight making and earlier, to examine the continuum of  glass working methods today.

Many of the techniques used in working and decorating glass did not begin and end in one era.  Glass is a material that evolved over centuries with a long history of use for creating decorative and functional objects. The earliest objects were small precious inlays, beads, unguent jars and containers for oils and perfumes.  These can be traced back to Egyptian use, at least 6,000 years ago or earlier.

This exhibition examines the dynamic possibilities of these ancient glass methods, expanded upon by technology, creativity and contemporary thought, in small scale to honor the initial direction of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum and discover the unending possibilities of the material.

The visual surprises are many as you explore the profound ingenuity of the artists using this historically alluring, versatile and dynamic material: glass.