The iconic Quadracci Pavilion is a sculptural, postmodern addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Highlights of the building are the magnificent cathedral-like space of Windhover Hall, with a vaulted a 90-foot-high glass ceiling; the Burke Brise Soleil, a moveable sunscreen with a 217-foot wingspan that unfolds and folds twice daily; and the Reiman Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge that connects the Museum to the city.


The Milwaukee Art Museum collects and preserves art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education. The museum boasts 30,000 works of art and has grown to be a valuable resource and source of pride for the entire state.

The museum's four floors of over forty galleries are rotated regularly with works from antiquity to the present in the Museum’s far-reaching collection. Included in the Collection are 15th through 21st–century European and 17th through 21st–century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the nation are the Museum’s 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 O’Keeffe. Important artists represented include Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Jóan Miro, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober and Andy Warhol.