Lake Michigan is the third largest of the five Great Lakes of North America Courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism
The Milwaukee Art Museum's permanent collection includes nearly 20,000 works from ancient objects to art of the present. Primary strengths are 19th- and 20th-century American and European works, contemporary art, American decorative arts, American and European folk art, and an outstanding Haitian art collection. The dramatic new Santiago Calatrava-designed expansion will feature changing exhibitions.
Considered one of the best natural history museums in the U.S., the Milwaukee Public Museum offers world-class exhibits of natural wonders, cultures and scientific discovery. Travel the world and celebrate the cultures of Africa, the Arctic, China, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands and Middle, Central and South America. Walk through the vanishing ecosystem of a Costa Rican rain forest. Visit the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. The museum also features exhibits specific to the history of Wisconsin such as Streets of Old Milwaukee where hundreds of original period objects and structural elements reconstruct a bygone era.
Tucked away between major art players Milwaukee and Chicago, the Racine Art Museum (RAM) is surrounded by restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, and an urban beat reminiscent of Soho in New York—only smaller, and with cheaper parking. Sleek and modern, with translucent, opaque and iridescent architecture, the RAM holds a collection of artistic treasures that focuses on ceramics, fibers, glass, metals, and wood from nationally and internationally recognized artists in the craft movement.
In the shadow of the State Capitol building, just up the street from the University of Wisconsin campus, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art features works of modern art from some of the most respected artists of the last century, including native daughter Georgia O'Keeffe, Romare Bearden, Cindy Sherman and Claes Oldenburg. The largest of the museum's new galleries, a 9,000-square-foot space with 18-foot ceilings, will enable the museum to mount exhibitions of an exhilarating scope and scale.
On Capitol Square in downtown Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Museum tells the story of the state's rich history from arrival of the earliest Native Americans to the successive waves of European migration. Explore Wisconsin's distinctive heritage and a variety of other American history topics through artifacts, photographs, dioramas, audio-visual presentations and interactive multimedia programs.
With just a small space devoted to its permanent collection (a small but stunning display of Chihuly, Lalique, and Steuben studio glass), the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum features ever-changing exhibits, so there's something new every few months, from Victorian needlework to Russian icons, from Egyptian objects to William Wegman photographs. Weather permitting, visitors can stroll the 4 acres of grounds along brick walkways and admire the Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery. The grounds also sport a formal English garden and shaded arbor with seating.
The Elvehjem is the art museum for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eight galleries feature selections from the museum's permanent collection of more than 17,500 works of art ranging from ancient to contemporary. Five of the galleries display European and American painting and sculpture but South Asian sculpture and East Asian scroll-painting can also be seen here.
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as America's greatest architect. Wisconsin, Wright's former home, is rich in public buildings and private residences created by the architect, including his own estate. Taliesin East emerges from behind a hillside in the Wyoming Valley, as a breathtaking work of wood and stone by Wright. Described as one of the greatest landscapes in America, the 600-acre estate was Wright's home and studio and it was here, among his beautiful objets d'art, which include Asian prints, Native American artifacts, Mission-style furniture and pottery, that Wright found his inspiration.
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Comments (1)
In searching your site, I find you have nothing in photos of one of the nations great treasures, i'am speaking of the amazing Circus World Museum located in Baraboo, Wisconsin including the collection of beautiful circus wagons. Is this an over site?
Posted by Brian R Gardner on February 23,2010 | 03:28 PM