Milwaukee Art Museum

A must-see when in Milwaukee. The collection is diverse, the shop is great and the Calatrava addition is breathtaking. In the entrance alone you see the lake, a Dale Chihuly glass structure and a Mark Di Suvero sculpture – and that is before you go inside!

The brochures for quick tours were cheeky and fun with topics like “Feeling naughty” which directs you to find art which includes nudity.

our coach researched everything before came so we did all of the touristy type things. The museum flaps it’s wings everyday at noon whick was cool. It does go rather slow though so we did’nt stay for the whole flapping. Inside i loved it. there was a particularly interesting exhibit involving a yellow folding chair a doll with a projected face andtape recorder. I don’t know if this is still there but it was very entertaining.

Worth visiting? Yes.

Obviously, the Calatrava addition is amazing. This alone is worth two hours of driving. Just being in that part of the building makes one feel like one has stepped into a science fiction movie—a good one at that. It makes you want to live in the future.

Past that, the collection of art is interesting. Ok, so the top names of art might not all be there. But what is there is interesting. Certainly there is lots of art from the Renaissance on, and it is quite interesting to see the differences that make the great artists great and why lesser-known artist are lesser known (it was for me anyway).

The collection leaves a lot to be desired but the “main attraction” delivers.

I finally got most of my pictures uploaded. The Milwaukee Art Museum! A must-see!!

Chihouly the best!

It took 2 hours to get there from a SSW ‘burb of Chicago. The building is simply fantastic and we were far more enthralled by that than the art collection inside. There weren’t any special collections on display although my 7 year old was fascinated by the Pedisuris’ mummy coffin and some of the Rodins. (Oh boy!) The wings open at 10 am and flap again at noon and then close at 5pm when the museum closes. It was a day of storms for the Chicago area but we were lucky there was no rain in Milwaukee. So my pictures of the MAM are all in overcast weather. I’ll post pictures when I transfer them from my camera. But this building is a definite must-see!!

About a 2 and half hour drive from my home.

Worth visiting, if only for the building itself. A must-see if you’re in the Milwaukee-area.