Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee Art Museum

 museum in Milwaukee, Wis., with a broad collection of ancient and contemporary art. The MAM collection is of international standing.

      The history of the Milwaukee Art Museum dates to the 1880s, although the museum officially originated when the Milwaukee Art Association and the Layton Art Gallery merged their collections in the late 1950s. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, MAM is a structural landmark both on the shoreline and in the city. It comprises three buildings, each designed in the postmodern tradition by a well-known architect. The museum's Quadracci Pavilion, completed in 2001 by the architect Santiago Calatrava (Calatrava, Santiago), features a moveable brise soleil, or sunscreen, with a 217-foot (66-metre) span.

      The museum's holdings are displayed chronologically according to period: ancient, early European, 19th-century European, American to 1900, modern, and contemporary. It includes more than 20,000 individual works. Its collections of American decorative art, German Expressionism, folk art, and Haitian art are considered among the best in the country. Noteworthy artists whose work is on display include, among many others, Winslow Homer, Gabriele Münter, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jóan Miro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Milton Avery, László Moholy-Nagy, Cindy Sherman, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, and Duane Hanson.

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