“On Your Own” Tours The Harley Davidson Museum • 400
Canal St. (approximately 1 mile south of the Frontier Airlines Center) • 414.287.2789 • www.harley-davidson.com/wcm /Content/Pages/HD_Museum/Museum.jsp H o u r s : D a i l y 1 0 a m – 6 p m ( open u ntil 8 : 0 0 pm on T h u r ) A dmission : A d u lt s — $ 1 6 ; S e n i o r s ( 6 5 + ) — $ 1 2
Much more than a nostalgia trip for motorcycle enthusiasts, the museum offers a glimpse of American history and culture like you’ve never seen it before.
American Geographical Society Library
• 2311 E. Hartford Ave. (approximately 5 miles northeast of the Frontier Airlines Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee); 3rd Fl., East Wing of the Golda Meir Library Bldg. • 414.229.6282 • http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/index.cfm Hours : Mon-Fri, 8 am – 4 :30 pm
The American Geographical Society Library is one of North America’s foremost geography and map collections. Formerly the library and map collection of the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York, it was transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Libraries in 1978 following a nationwide selection process by the Society.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
• 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee (Approximately 1.4 miles east of the Frontier Airlines Center) • 414.224.3200 • http://mam.org/ H o u r s : T u e s – S u n , 1 0 AM – 5 PM ; T h u O pen u ntil 8 PM admission : A d u l t s — $ 1 5 ; St u d e n t s ( w / I D ) , S e n i o r s ( 6 5 + ) , M i l i ta r y ( w / I D ) — $ 12
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With a history dating back to 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum’s collection includes nearly 25,000 works from antiquity to the present, encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, video art and installations, and textiles. The museum's collections of American decorative arts, German Expressionist prints and paintings, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960 are among the nation's finest. In addition, the museum has become an architectural destination with the addition of the Quadracci Pavilion designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Third Ward Neighborhood
• (Approximately 1 mile southeast of the Frontier Airlines Center) • http://www.historicthirdward.org/ • http://www.historicthirdward.org/about/documents/ HistoricWalkingTour2009.pdf (downloadable walking tour) Within walking distance of the conference hotels, this neighborhood was home to Irish immigrants in the 1870s. An 1892 fire destroyed twenty square blocks and left thousands homeless. In the wake of the fire, a new neighborhood was built, housing businesses including knitting, cigar processing, paper, and printing companies. The National Register of Historic Places placed seventy buildings under the “The Historic Third Ward District.” Now home to galleries, boutiques, condos, and the Milwaukee Public Market.
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