The
Milwaukee Art Museum includes the new Santiago Calatrava-designed
Quadracci Pavilion, completed in October, 2001 and named
by Time magazine "Best Design of 2001"; renovated
and reinstalled permanent collection galleries; and elegant
public gardens designed by noted landscape architect
Dan Kiley. The Museum's 2001 expansion provided a 30
percent increase in overall gallery space, enhanced educational
and public programming facilities, and expanded public
amenities.
The Milwaukee Art Museum's far-reaching holdings include more
than 20,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With
a history dating back to 1888, the Museum's primary strengths
are in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary
art, American decorative arts, Old Master works, and folk
and self-taught art.
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