The MAM Milwaukee Art Museum
by Kay Novy
Title
The MAM Milwaukee Art Museum
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin (MAM) is an art museum with a collection of over 30000 works of art serving over 350000 visitors a year. The campus of three buildings is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The Museum's stated mission is to "collect and preserve art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education"
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The MAM recently gained international recognition with the construction of the white concrete Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava (his first completed project in the United States), which opened on May 4, 2001. The pavilion was engineered by the Milwaukee-based engineering firm, Graef, while the construction manager was also Milwaukee-based, C.G. Schmidt. The structure contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil which opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet (66 m) during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The brise soleil has since become a symbol for the city of Milwaukee. In addition to a gallery devoted to temporary exhibits, the pavilion houses the museum's store and its restaurant, Cafe Calatrava. The pavilion received the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.
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Four floors of over forty galleries of art are rotated regularly with works from antiquity to the present in the Museums far-reaching Collection. Included in the Collection are 15th to 20thcentury European and 17th to 20thcentury American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the nation are the Museums 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 OKeeffe.
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