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Milwaukee Art Museum [edit]
700 N. Art Museum Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 224-3200
www.mam.org
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The Milwaukee Art Museum's collection comprises more than 20,000 works of art from ancient to contemporary and is housed in a trio of unique structures from Eero Saarinen's 1950s building through a David Kahler section added in the 1970s and the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion.

The museum houses 15th to 20th century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, folk art, Haitian art and outsider art.

MAM's cafe also offers great lunches in a luminous setting with lake views.

Visit the Milwaukee Art Museum's Web site for hours, admission fees and a full description of current exhibitions.
mam.org.

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Upcoming events

May 19, 2012
Sketching in the Galleries

Come and be inspired by the works of art in the Museum. No experience is necessary, all materials are provided and the program is free with admission to the museum.

May 20, 2012
Kohl's Art Generation Family Sundays: Water, Earth and Sky

Make hands-on projects with clay, help create a giant rainbow, take a scavenger hunt, and participate ain many more family-friendly activities to get your kids excited about art and the world around us. Free with museum admission; free for kids 12 and under, for Boys and Girls Club Members and their families (with membership card), and for members of Betty Brinn Children's Museum, Discovery World, and Milwaukee Public Museum.

May 26, 2012
Sketching in the Galleries

Come and be inspired by the works of art in the Museum. No experience is necessary, all materials are provided and the program is free with admission to the museum.

May 28, 2012
Art Museum Open on Memorial Day

Come enjoy free admission for all active-duty military members and veterans!

June 1, 2012 - Sept. 9, 2012
Posters of Paris

Come check out the Milwaukee Art Museum's latest exhibition.. The museum will transport visitors to nineteenth century Paris, when larger-than-life, brightly hued artistic posters with bold typography and playful imagery once covered the boulevards. Experience more than one hundred of the finest French posters advertising theatre productions to the debaucherous cancan, bicycles to champagne, posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret, and Alphonse Mucha, among others.

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