Milwaukee Art Museum

If you have been reading this blog since the beginning, you may have picked up on my love for the Milwaukee Art Museum. We have a membership and working only a few blocks away lets me get there often. Today I walked over there on my lunch hour and discovered some new treasures and enjoyed some favorites.

I first wandered into a room of mechanical Renaissance clocks that I had never noticed. The room included several beautiful master clocks, clocks made by clockmakers applying to be a Master Clockmaker. 

Then I visited the gallery with the impressionist paintings I love. 

Boating on the Yerres by Gustave Caillebotte

View of Bougival by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Sunset at Rouen by Camille Pissarro

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect by Claude Monet

Theatre Foyer by Jean-Louis Forain

I then headed to the second floor and found myself in a room that I always wondered about. 

As the room is lacking in labels, I never understood what it was all about. This time however, a card with a website caught my attention. It turns out this is Mrs. M._’s Cabinet. You can read all about it here. 

Rainbow Bridge by Olafur Eliasson is a sculpture not to be missed on the second floor overlooking Lake Michigan.  As you walk around the sculpture the colors change.  It is one of those sculptures that begs to be interacted with.

As a former Spanish teacher, I usually try to walk past Joan Miro's The King's Jester.

And if you are going to check out Miro, you might as well check out Picasso's The Cock of Liberation.

See if you can find any addition in this pop artwork.  

Finally, I love this sculpture by Dale Chihuly in the lobby titled, "Idola di San Giacomo in Palude Chandelier II."

This just touches the surface of the great art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  Every time I visit, I find something new.