Upcoming Events

Downtown Manitowoc has seen significant change over the decades, but landmarks of our city’s past remain—if you know where to look!

Drop-In Employment Assistance: Department of Workforce Development staff will provide onsite services, including resume writing, assistance with online applications, assistance registering in Job Center of Wisconsin, and more!&nbs

Manitowoc Public Library and Wisconsin Job Service would like to invite job seekers to a multi-employer hiring event taking place in MPL's Balkansky Community Room!

The Manitowoc County Genealogical Society will be in the Manitowoc Collection every Tuesday from 3-5PM to help people with their genealogy research.

Join MPL and the Manitowoc Police Department for National Night Out! This annual community-building campaign promotes police-community partnerships to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live. 

Activities Include:

Join us for 20 minutes of stories, songs, rhymes, bounces, parachute activities, and bubbles, followed by 20 minutes of playtime! Baby Storytime is recommended for developmental ages 0-2 and siblings are always welcome.

Join us in singing, talking, reading, creating, and playing at this inclusive Storytime for families with preschoolers. Storytime focuses on concepts such as life skills, counting, colors, emotions, patterns, and the alphabet.

Your voice is important - time to make it heard!

Now you see them, now you don't! Animals have the ability to camouflage; learn all about this amazing trait in a hands-on visit from Zookeeper Kelsey and her animal friends.  

Want to improve your memory and concentration or practice logical thinking skills? Make a smart move and join us for Drop-In Chess Club! The game of chess offers many brainy benefits and -- it's just fun!

Join us for 20 minutes of stories, songs, rhymes, bounces, parachute activities, and bubbles, followed by 20 minutes of playtime! Baby Storytime is recommended for developmental ages 0-2 and siblings are always welcome.

Join us in singing, talking, reading, creating, and playing at this inclusive Storytime for families with preschoolers. Storytime focuses on concepts such as life skills, counting, colors, emotions, patterns, and the alphabet.

Summer's ending - but not before we eat ice cream! Give summer a proper goodbye with gobs of whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and sprinkles. 

Sponsored by the Lakeshore Artists Guild, this “call and response” exhibit is a collaboration between twenty artists and twenty poets resulting in forty poems and forty artworks.

Friends of Manitowoc Public Library monthly meeting.

Drop-In Employment Assistance: Department of Workforce Development staff will provide onsite services, including resume writing, assistance with online applications, assistance registering in Job Center of Wisconsin, and more!&nbs

Splash into bubbly fun!  Babies are invited to explore bubbles in this joyful, sensory‑rich playtime.  Come giggle, pop, and play as we celebrate movement, curiosity, and early learning through bubbles galore!  Ages 3 and under.

The Manitowoc County Genealogical Society will be in the Manitowoc Collection every Tuesday from 3-5PM to help people with their genealogy research.

Design your own town and learn about city engineering and plans. Geared for kids ages 4 to 8.

Join us for 20 minutes of stories, songs, rhymes, bounces, parachute activities, and bubbles, followed by 20 minutes of playtime! Baby Storytime is recommended for developmental ages 0-2 and siblings are always welcome.

Join us in singing, talking, reading, creating, and playing at this inclusive Storytime for families with preschoolers. Storytime focuses on concepts such as life skills, counting, colors, emotions, patterns, and the alphabet.

Join us for 20 minutes of stories, songs, rhymes, bounces, parachute activities, and bubbles, followed by 20 minutes of playtime! Baby Storytime is recommended for developmental ages 0-2 and siblings are always welcome.

Join us in singing, talking, reading, creating, and playing at this inclusive Storytime for families with preschoolers. Storytime focuses on concepts such as life skills, counting, colors, emotions, patterns, and the alphabet.

You're never too old--or too young!--to enjoy a good story! Join Miss Sharon from Manitowoc Public Library for an intergenerational storytime designed for grandparents, parents and their grandkids! Craft and treats included!