Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414-224-3200
Fax: 414-271-7588
Map

Email: mam@mam.org

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Hours
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10 AM–5 PM
Thursday until 8 PM
Closed Mondays (Open Mondays, Memorial Day–Labor Day)
Closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day (open on Christmas Eve).

Admission:
Feature exhibitions are included in the price of admission.
$14 Adults
$12 Students (w/ID), Seniors (65+), Military (w/ID)*

• *Memorial Day through Labor Day: Veterans, active military, and their families get in FREE to the Museum

Free to Members and Kids 12 & under
Free the first Thursday of every month (excluding groups), sponsored by Target®.

All adult tour groups or school groups should call 414-224-3842.

Purchase Tickets

Museum Store
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10 AM–5 PM
Thursday until 8 PM
Closed Mondays (Open Mondays, Memorial Day–Labor Day)
No admission ticket required to shop.

Café Calatrava
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM

Plan your visit
With 1,500 pieces on display at one time, the Milwaukee Art Museum has more art than most visitors can see in a day. These resources will help you find your way around. Get directions & parking.

History
The Milwaukee Art Museum has its roots in two Milwaukee art groups from the 1880s. These organizations and their collections merged under one roof for the first time in 1957. The Museum and its holdings continued to grow over the decades. In 2001, a major addition put the Museum on the map, nationally as well as internationall

Museum info
The Milwaukee Art Museum collects and preserves art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education.

30,000 works of art. 350,000+ visitors a year. 125 years of collecting art. From its roots in Milwaukee’s first art gallery in 1888, the Museum has grown today to be an icon for Milwaukee and a resource for the entire state.

The 341,000-square-foot Museum includes the War Memorial Center (1957) designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, the Kahler Building (1975) by David Kahler, and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

Central to the Museum’s mission is its role as a premier educational resource, with educational programs that are among the largest in the nation, involving classes, tours, and a full calendar of events for all ages.

Collection

Four floors of over forty galleries of art are rotated regularly with works from antiquity to the present in the Museum’s far-reaching Collection. Included in the Collection are 15th– to 20th–century European and 17th– to 20th–century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the nation are the Museum’s holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The Museum also holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O’Keeffe.

Important artists represented include Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Jóan Miro, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober, and Andy Warhol.

In addition to the works in the Museum’s Collection galleries, there are a variety of changing exhibitions throughout the year, including the three major feature exhibitions in the Baker/Rowland Galleries of the Quadracci Pavilion.