Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Meuseum (MAM) is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its current home is in the Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened on May 4, 2001, and located directly on Lake Michigan.
The museum's history began in 1888 when the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen; its first home was the Layton Art Gallery. In the early 1900s the Milwaukee Art Institute was founded. The Milwaukee Art Center (now the MAM) was formed when these two groups joined in 1957. The MAM's permanent holdings contain an important collection of Old Masters and 19th-century and 20th-century artwork, as well as some of the nations best collections of German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, American decorative arts, and post 1960 American art.