Photos from my retro photo album titled: Milwaukee, November 2008.
Above is a sculpture positioned near the Milwaukee Art Museum, with an almost frozen Lake Michigan behind it.
The Calatrava-designed architecture of course went over budget to the tune of $100 million dollars when it was built in 2001! (Its estimated cost rose from $38 million in 1997 to $122 million by the time it opened.) Those wings sure do look good when they’re opened, though!
I affectionally call the museum’s interior “The belly of the whale” because it makes me feel like I’ve been swallowed by Moby Dick. It’s an odd compliment that I’ve bestowed to nowhere else.
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Krista Marson 