Today is INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY! Tickets are on sale beginning Sept. 19 at 9 A.M. for the special upcoming exhibit, REAL PIRATES.

The exhibit will open on December 14 and run through May 27, 2013.

Ahoy, Mateys! The Jolly Roger will be raised over the Milwaukee Public Museum on December 14, as REAL PIRATES takes over the Museum’s special exhibit halls. Experience the Golden Age of Piracy aboard the Whydah, one of the most successful pirate ships of her day, and learn about her roots as a slave ship and subsequent takeover and conversion into a pirate ship in the early 1700s.