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500 W Kilbourn Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53203
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The Milwaukee Public Museum is a natural and human history museum located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The museum was chartered in 1882 and opened to the public in 1884; it is a not-for-profit organization operated by the Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc. MPM has three floors of exhibits and the first IMAX Theater in Wisconsin. Admission is free to residents of Milwaukee County on the first Thursday of every month and to Milwaukee County jurors at all times.HistoryThe German-English AcademyMPM was one of several major American museums that were established in the late 19th century. Although it was officially chartered in 1882, its existence can be traced back to 1851, to the founding of the German-English Academy in Milwaukee. The Academy's principal, Peter Engelmann, encouraged student field trips, many of which collected various specimens—organic, geological, and archaeological in nature—which were kept at the Academy. Later, alumni and others donated various specimens of historical and ethnological interest to the collection.

UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena is an indoor arena located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The arena, which seats as many as 12,700 people and offers 41,000 feet of floor space, is part of a larger downtown campus, that includes the Milwaukee Theatre and Wisconsin Center.The arena was part of the MECCA Complex from 1974 until the 1995 opening of the Midwest Express Center.HistoryIt opened in 1950 and was one of the first to accommodate the needs of broadcast television. It was folded into MECCA (The Milwaukee Exposition, Convention Center and Arena) when the complex opened in 1974. It is also known for its former unique basketball court painted by Robert Indiana in 1978, with large rainbow 'M's taking up both half-courts representing Milwaukee.Since the 1960s, the Arena has held a number of concerts by high-profile performers. On September 4, 1964, The Beatles played their only Milwaukee concert, at the Arena, to a sold-out crowd of screaming fans. Folk-rock icon Bob Dylan played a two-night stand there in mid-October as part of his Fall 1981 tour.It was home to the Milwaukee Hawks (1951–55) and the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA (1968 to 1988), and hosted the 1977 NBA All-Star Game before an audience of 10,938. The venue was also home to Marquette University's men's basketball team along with the International Hockey League Milwaukee Admirals. These teams all moved to the BMO Harris Bradley Center upon the newer arena's opening in 1988.

The Milwaukee City Hall is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was finished in 1895, at which time it was the third tallest structure in the United States. The city hall's bell tower, at 353 feet (108 m), made it the third tallest structure in the nation, behind the Washington Monument & Philadelphia City Hall. The Hall was Milwaukee's tallest building until completion of the First Wisconsin Center in 1973.DesignMilwaukee City Hall was designed by architect Henry C. Koch in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style, based on both German precedent (for example, the Hamburg Rathaus or city hall), and local examples (the Pabst Building, demolished in 1981). Due to Milwaukee's historic German immigrant population, many of the surrounding buildings mirror this design. The foundation consists of 2,584 white pine pilers which were driven in to the marshy land surrounding the Milwaukee River. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt after a fire in October 1929.The bell in City Hall was named after Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's first mayor. It was designed and crafted by the Campbells, who were early pioneers in creating diving chambers and suits near the Great Lakes area during that time.

Located directly across from the BMO Harris Bradley Center and just one floor below Turner Hall Ballroom, Turner Hall Restaurant is a great gathering space for lunch, pre-and post game appetizers and, of course, our legendary fish fry! We are proud to serve exceptional food, great beer, wine and cocktails and feature fresh, local products that celebrate the rich and spirited heritage of Wisconsin and Turner Hall. General Manager Rob Koch, Executive Chef Thomas Peschong, and their entire staff invite you to stop in today and enjoy some of the tradition, creativity, and warm service that make Milwaukee famous. See you soon! “We’re a community space and, to me, it’s all about the food. There’s history here and history to be made.” Executive Chef, Thomas Peschong

The Knickerbocker Hotel is a low-rise building located in the Yankee Hill neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.DescriptionDesigned by architects Rossman & Wierdsma in Classical Revival style, the Knickerbocker was built in 1929. It has eight floors and 160 suites with interior decorating styles varying from Victorian to French Country. Situated next to the historic Astor on the Lake, it was intended to be a less refined copy of the building. The majority of the rooms are now owner occupied.

Old St. Mary Church was built in 1847, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by the Old St. Mary Parish. The parish was founded a year earlier, by German Catholic immigrants. Milwaukee, having been incorporated only the year before, was still a young city at that time, and Wisconsin had not yet become a state. Old St. Mary's is the oldest church still standing in the city.The church was designed by Victor Schulte, a Prussian immigrant, who designed three other religious buildings in the area. It is constructed of Cream City brick. Its tower gained a clock in 1860 and three bells in 1868. These bronze bells were cast in Munich. Mass was held on the main level, and a school was housed on the lower level until 1867. The carved wooden main altar was purchased in 1848.

The Central Library is the headquarters for the Milwaukee Public Library System as well as for the Milwaukee County Federated Library System. Designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1969, the building remains one of Milwaukee's most monumental public structures.Today, the Central Library occupies almost the entire building with 3 exceptions: the headquarters for the Milwaukee County Federated Library System; the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library; and Volunteer Services for the Visually Handicapped.Central Library architectureA national competition was held to pick a design for a building to house both the public library and the public museum. Seventy-four entries were received, including one from Frank Lloyd Wright. The winning design submitted by Ferry & Clas of Milwaukee was for a building one block long and designed in a combination of French and Italian renaissance styles known as Neo-renaissance. The building was designed in a U-shape to provide a common entrance for the library and museum but to keep the facilities separate. Construction costs for the monumental building, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, were $780,000. In the entrance to the library, mosaic tile floors were hand-laid by master Italian craftsmen who had settled in Milwaukee. Tessera, the small squarish pieces of colored marble or tile, were used in the entrance and in the Art, Music and Recreation Department. The tessera in the entrance floor are smaller than normal, allowing for a more detailed design. The age of the building has buckled, settled, cracked and damaged the floor and columns. In 2008, a restoration of the mosaic tile floors was begun. Some of the materials used in the interior are yellow Sienna marble, brass and stained glass (lighting fixtures), hardwoods such as oak and mahogany, and scagliola (used for the pillars). The trim on top of the wainscoting in the corridor is called “egg and dart”, and is replicated in renovated areas throughout the library. The bay leaf garland design found above the doors in the corridor is actually made of painted plaster, not carved wood.

Constructed in 1882, Turner Hall began as a showplace for the panoramic painters and other German immigrant artists who dominated the Milwaukee art scene until the 1920’s and throughout the early 1900’s. It is the only building in Milwaukee that currently holds the three following honorary architectural and historical designations: a National Landmark, a listing on the National Registry of Historic Places, and a local Historical Landmark. Located in the heart of downtown, across from the Bradley Center, the two-story, 7,000 – plus square foot Ballroom is a central hub for a vast array of events in the city of Milwaukee. Turner Hall features a variety of customizable options, from bar packages to catering, that make your wedding as unique as the space that’s hosting it.

The Valentin Blatz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It produced Blatz Beer from 1851 until 1959, when the label was sold to Pabst Brewing Company.Blatz beer is currently produced by the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, under contract for Pabst Brewing Company.HistoryJohann Braun opened City Brewery in 1846. Valentin Blatz established a brewery next door in 1850 and merged both breweries upon Braun's death in 1852. The brewery produced Milwaukee's first individually bottled beer in 1874. It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889, and by the 1900s was the city's third-largest brewer.During Prohibition, Blatz produced non-alcoholic beverages, from 1920 to 1933. In 1933, Blatz was issued U-Permit № WIS-U-712, granting permission to resume brewing beer.In 1958, Pabst Brewing Company, then the nation's tenth largest brewer, acquired Blatz, the eighteenth largest, from Schenley Industries. In 1959, the federal government brought an action charging that the acquisition violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act as amended by the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger amendment. The sale was voided in 1959 and Blatz closed that same year. In 1960, the assets of Blatz, including its labels, were sold to Pabst.In 1969, Blatz was acquired from Pabst by the G. Heileman Brewing Company. Heileman, in turn, was acquired by the Stroh Brewery Company in 1996. On 8 February 1999, prior to its dissolution in 2000, the Stroh Brewery Company sold its labels to the Pabst Brewing Company and to the Miller Brewing Company. By 2007, Blatz was once again part of Pabst.

Calvary Presbyterian Church is located in the Marquette University district of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986.DescriptionThe building was designed by Milwaukee architects Koch & Hess in Gothic Revival style and built in 1870. The body of the structure is Cream City brick, a distinct light colored brick kilned from local clay, with limestone accents and sits on a rusticated stone base. The exterior has since been painted a bright red color.Calvary Church features an indoor prayer labyrinth laid into the floor. Its design was inspired by a 12th-century labyrinth found at the Cathedral of Chartres in Chartres, France, and has eleven circuits with a rosette center.

The U.S. Courthouse & Federal Office Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a post office, Federal office, and courthouse building located at Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It is a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

The Pabst Brewery Complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the former brewery of the Pabst Brewing Company. The facility was closed in 1997. On August 16, 2006 the brewery complex was purchased by Joseph Zilber's investment group Brewery Project LLC for $13 million to create The Brewery, a renovated complex for residential, office, and retail use. The former Pabst Brewing Company Former Corporate Office Building & Visitor's Center have been reopened as \"Best Place,\" in reference to the brewery's founders Jacob Best and Phillip Best, and feature an antiques gift shop, Blue Ribbon Hall and the \"Little Tavern on the Hill.\" Enclosed by the building are two courtyards, one of which houses a statue of Captain Frederick Pabst. A statue of King Gambrinus, the unofficial patron saint of beer, used to be displayed in the other courtyard, but was removed when the brewery was shut down in the mid-1990s. The sculpture was loaned back to the complex by the Pabst Corporation after a lengthy negotiation period on May 21, 2011. The former Pabst Brewhouse was also transformed into a hotel by Gorman & Company, a firm based in Oregon, Wisconsin. The hotel opened for business in April of 2013.

The Germania Building is an eight-story historic Beaux-Arts/Classical Revival building at 135 W. Wells St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built in 1896 for George Brumder to house the headquarters of his burgeoning publishing empire.DescriptionThe 8-story, 117752sqft building was designed by German-trained architects Schnetzky & Liebert and was, at the time of its construction, the largest office building in the city of Milwaukee. In addition to its characteristic copper pickelhaube domes, the building was graced by a 10ft-tall, three-ton bronze statue of Germania on a plinth over the door.In 1918, the building's name was changed to the Brumder Building in response to anti-German sentiment during World War I, and the statue was removed discreetly in the night. Efforts to trace the fate of the statue, which was stored for a while by sculptor Cyril Colnik, have proven futile, with one theory claiming that it was melted down for scrap during World War II, and another speculating that it may have gone to the Smithsonian Institution, and possibly still be there.

Built in 1876 by the Desmond Family, it was sold in the early 1880's to the Farnham family who lived here until the father committed suicide at work (Northwestern Mutual Life). In 1892, the Farnham family sold the house to Laura Ann Ludington Hustis, pioneer settler of Milwaukee, who died in 1900. Her daughter, Josephine Hustis, then lived here with her nephew until her death in 1922. It then passed to Josephine's sister Florence, and her two nephews Roland and Percival Hustis, who lived here until the late 1920's, selling off part of the lot to what would become the Savoy Apartments. They then sold the house and it became a boarding house.

Showtimes: Thursdays 7:30pm (Tickets $5, FREE with a College ID) Fridays 7:30pm ($10) Saturdays 7:30pm and 10pm ($10) -Two drink minimum (alcohol or non) during all shows. -Please check in 30 minutes prior to showtimes. -Reservations recommended 414-271-JOKE 3rd St Parking: Free street parking available, 4 parking lots/structures with in one block (charging $5-$30 depending on area events) $7 valet parking for Giovanni's and Comedy Cafe customers every weekend, no matter what!

We took some of the greatest things from Milwaukee, added a little bit of Nashville and a whole lot of what makes the USA great and then mixed them together to bring you American Made Entertainment. Casual country fans will find Red White & Blue the perfect spot to celebrate their birthday, girl’s night out, or just listen to some great country music. Whether it is dancing to the DJ or the band, you will feel comfortable letting loose in blue jeans and sundresses while still being able to hit the rest of downtown…there is no bull, no cheesy décor, just you, your friends and some amazing good times.

The Dinner Detective is the largest, award-winning, interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show in the United States. We are now running public and private shows in cities across the country every week. Our immensely popular shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows, here you will find no cheesy costumes, no recited campy dialogue and no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not. In many instances, guests are seated with the performers and don't even realize it until they die...the performers, that is! Our Detectives proceed to interrogate everyone and find clues as more people die. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime.

Escape Chambers MKE is like nothing you have ever seen before. Located on the second floor of Grand Avenue Mall in downtown Milwaukee, Escape Chambers MKE is the real‐life incarnation of movies like Saw, National Treasure, Sherlock Holmes, and The DaVinci Code. Puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are your only means of escape, as this is more a mental challenge than physical. Successfully navigating the different scenarios of the rooms, require more than just brains, alone…you must learn to communicate and work together with your team members, if you want any hope of walking out the doors to freedom. Group sizes vary, based on each different scenario, and all ages are welcome; although we do recommend participants be 10 and older, as some of our rooms contain more of a “fear factor.” Scenarios differ in difficulty and intensity, depending on the size of the group. While some of the puzzles appear quite simple in their inception, adrenaline and the stress from an unyielding countdown timer, inching ever‐closer to zero, makes seemingly ordinary tasks, mentally exhilarating! The creators will put your cognitive abilities to the ultimate test, while providing a level of entertainment rarely seen these days. And unlike other escape rooms, the seamless execution of combining mind-bending riddles, adrenaline‐spiking moments of suspense and surprise, and engaging story lines, provides participants with the type of realistic experience that you simply cannot find anywhere else.

First Stage touches hearts and transforms lives through professional theater productions that engage, enlighten and entertain. Committed to new play development, First Stage has presented nearly 50 world premieres in its history and has collaborated with renowned artists including Harry Connick Jr. and Stephen Schwartz, and award-winning authors Lois Lowry and Cornelia Funke. Its Theater Academy, teaching life skills through stage skills, is the nation's largest high-impact theater training program for young people. As Wisconsin’s leader in arts-in-education programming, First Stage’s dynamic Theater in Education programs promote active learning in our schools and our community, serving over 20,000 children each year.

The Arcade Theatre is located in the Lower Level of the Plankinton Arcade building in the Grand Avenue Mall.

The Underground Collaborative is a creative resource center featuring over 8,000 square feet of space for live shows, business meetings, Art Gallery, rehearsals, workshops, presentations and more. The UC was founded in 2012 and includes a theatre, art gallery, recording studio, dance studio, administrative offices and creative workspaces. The UC is a creative and friendly place - and the perfect location for your next rehearsal, meeting, or event!

LISTING OF ARTISTS IN THE U.C. GALLERY SUE BERCE (curator) , original abstracts, [email protected], sueberce.com, facebook.com/sberce, [email protected] Michelle Wildgruber, Raku ceramic tiles, [email protected], mmpughmeart.etsy.com Loni Zarling, portraits, illustrations and design [email protected], lonizarling.com Malvy Westbrook, fantasy, sci-fi, illustration and design http://offworldimages.blogspot.com/ [email protected] Jim Maki, realistic scenery pen and ink, watercolor [email protected] Cindy Milner, pastels [email protected] Mark Harder, clocks (with hubcaps), [email protected]

Tuesday - Thursday $5.00 Cover Per Person. Fri & Sat $10 Per Person.

Performing singers and actors. 2016-17 has special opportunities for young people. Shows at Next Act Theatre and 10th Strret Theatre Milwaukee. Come JOIN US!

More than just bars, Water Street offers a full spectrum of dining, shopping and nightlife; defining entertainment in Milwaukee. Water Street Entertainment District (Water St. & Juneau Ave) is the pulse of downtown, Milwaukee’s original entertainment district, and the first choice of Milwaukee residents and visitors when deciding on a relaxed, safe and fun entertainment destination

Remote Planet Recording was started by Ric Probst and Steve Kultgen. We originally offered stereo archival recording services, but soon expanded to 16 track, then to 24 track and finally a fully equipped remote truck with 32 channel capabilities. We were soon operating not only the remote side of things, but a full traditional studio as well. Our business continues to be a healthy mix of both remote, and studio business with some amazing clientele. Ric started his recording career in Cincinnati as a staff engineer at QCA Studios, but was soon free lancing at studios throughout the country. During this time, he earned 5 gold, and 1 double platinum record as recording/mix engineer. He moved to Wisconsin in 1992, and met business partner, Steve Kultgen. Steve not only helps guide Remote Planet, but is one of the area's premier post production engineers. Today, Remote Planet Recording is one of the area's busiest, and most trusted recording facilities. Our studio is located in the incredible Tanner Monagle space in the refurbished Blatz building. We share a very symbiotic and creative relationship with original music guru, John Tanner and video editor/guitarist Bob Monagle. Our regular clients range from the area's best singer/song writers and jazz players, to many members of the MSO.