Milwaukee Art Museum
Lakefront art museum whose Calatrava pavilion has a movable sunscreen that opens and closes daily.
The Milwaukee Art Museum occupies three linked buildings on the Lake Michigan shore. The oldest is Eero Saarinen's cantilevered War Memorial Center of 1957, extended by David Kahler in 1975. In 2001 the museum opened the Quadracci Pavilion by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, his first completed building in the United States, reached across a cable-stayed pedestrian bridge from the end of Wisconsin Avenue. The pavilion's Windhover Hall is a vaulted glass reception space facing the lake.
The pavilion is best known for the Burke Brise Soleil, a movable sunscreen of steel fins with a span comparable to that of a large airliner. It is raised when the museum opens, folded at midday on some days and closed again at night, and the movement draws onlookers to the plaza. The collection holds about 30,000 works, with notable groups of Georgia O'Keeffe paintings, German Expressionism, folk and outsider art, and American decorative arts.
Highlights
- Burke Brise Soleil, the moving wing-like sunscreen over the entrance
- Windhover Hall, Calatrava's glass-vaulted reception space
- Reiman pedestrian bridge linking the museum to downtown
- Large holding of paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
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