Milwaukee is the most densely populated city of Wisconsin and a major port on Lake Michigan . Not only is this a great place for lovers of sailing and yachting . Milwaukee is also surprisingly rich in terms of cultural leisure . Perhaps you will not be particularly impressed its architectural beauties, but if you want you can spend a few busy days, visiting the numerous and rich city museums . And even more fun to spend time on one of the many days of festivals, concerts, music or theater performances . Events on the lakeside pass here so often that in the summer season, when the traveler does not come to Milwaukee, he will necessarily go to one or the other .

How to get to Milwaukee

There are two airports in Milwaukee, in particular, Mitchell-International, which serves more than a dozen airlines and connects Milwaukee with almost a hundred cities. Also, you can take a direct train there for an hour and a half from Chicago.

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A bit of history

The trading station appeared on the site of the present Milwaukee in 1795 ., but more or less a full-fledged city began to grow around it only 10-15 years later. Initially, the inhabitants (and founders) of Milwaukee were French Canadians. By the middle of the 19th century, the village received city status.

Entertainment, sightseeing and sightseeing Milwaukee

Beautifully interesting four-story building Turner Hall, built for the German-American Turners Association and designed by Henry Koch. In 1996, it was declared a national historical attraction, and today the building hosts many concerts, and the former ballroom of Turner Hall was named "the site of the year" in 2010.

A memorable city landmark is the "Doms" ("domes") in the Mitchell Park. These are three huge glass spheres inside which city greenhouses are broken. Here you can see the landscape of the desert, the rain forest and various thematic exhibitions.

In the southern part of the city, at the corner of Lincoln Street and Sixth Street, worth a remarkable basilica of St. Joseph and . It was built by the Milwaukee community of building materials left after the dismantling of the old customs building and mail . The church is decorated with bronze ornaments and other accessories of the old customs, including door handles . Some people consider St. Joseph's church the best example of " »Architectural style in North America . Particularly impressive interior of the basilica, amazingly lush and rich . Another beautiful religious building - the Trinity Lutheran Church with asymmetrical facade towers .

Allen-Bradley Clock Tower is characteristic and recognizable. It was the world's largest clock tower until 2010, when the Al Bait tower was built in Saudi Arabia. The diameter of the watch is about 12 meters, and they are known as "the Polish moon": at night, the octagonal dial is highlighted and visible from afar.

The Town Hall is also of interest. It was built under the clear impression of German architectural achievements. This is due to the extensive German heritage of the city: a lot of German immigrants have historically settled in Milwaukee.

Another famous symbol of Milwaukee is the modern object of public art "Call", created in the 80's. of the last century by Mark di Suviero in O'Donnell Park. The monument is made of steel criss-crossed anti-tank "hedgehog" beams, which are painted in an orange-red color. In width and height it is more than 10 m.

Museums of Milwaukee

The Art Museum in Milwaukee is large enough and can boast a collection of 25 thousand .with superfluous exhibits .This is the work of the classics, and modern art paintings, mostly American authors .Very interesting is the modern building of the Quadracci pavilion, the newest addition to the museum: its author was the notorious Santiago Calatrava .The construction cost 100 million USD, but it was probably worth it: today this snow-white futuristic wing became one of the symbols of the city .The mobile solar screen really reveals itself like a bird's wing several times during the day .The museum is adjoined by a military memorial designed by the architect Eero Saarinen .

The Groman Museum houses one of the best collections in the world devoted to the evolution of human labor. In the collection "Man at Work" there are more than 700 paintings and sculptures from 1580 to our days. The museum also boasts a picturesque sculptural garden on the roof.

On the campus of the University of Marquette is the Haggerty Art Museum, which owns several classic masterpieces. In addition, the city has another art museum of Charles Alice in a beautiful historic building, the Villa Terrace Museum of Decorative Arts in a marvelous private mansion built in 1924 for the Lloyd R. Smith family, and the William Einer Advertising Museum.

The Milwaukee City Museum is devoted primarily to the natural history and history of mankind. Here on an area of ​​14 thousand square meters. There are constantly working exhibitions related to the history of the continents from the era of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Here you can see the reconstruction and tropical rain forest, and the streets of the old Milwaukee, and the European village.

Another amazing modern museum is Discovery World, which is dedicated to science. It occupies an interesting cylindrical-shaped building right on the shore of the lake, next to the art museum. Here guests can see many high-tech exposures, marine and freshwater aquariums, a 12-meter three-dimensional model of the human genome and a large exposition telling the story of the Great American Lakes.

Another curious city museum is a museum of beer. The idea of ​​the foundation of the museum belonged to private individuals, among whom was one of the employees of Pabst. For a long time the museum wandered back and forth, periodically arranging temporary exhibitions. By the way, in itself the mansion of the beer King F. Pabst, built in 1892 in the Flemish Revival style, is also a house museum.

Also in Milwaukee are the Black Holocaust Museum, founded by J. Cameron, a black activist who survived the Lynch trial, a Jewish museum, a Mitchell aeronautical gallery at the airport of the same name, a Harley-Davidson mummy, and a very curious nostalgic museum of the past A. Chudnov.

Milwaukee Events

Milwaukee is called a city of festivals. Here in August is held, firstly, the Wisconsin State Fair, which lasts 11 days. Since 1852, it collects a lot of producers of various kinds of goods and services: farmers, restaurateurs, winemakers, pastoralists. The most popular delicacy at the fair is French custard cream cakes.

And even more popular is the annual Summerfest on the shore of the lake. This music festival is sometimes called "Big Gig". The festival also lasts 11 days, and at this time in the Festival Park Henry Meyer equip 11 scenes, which have time to make more than 700 teams. The festival is held in late June - early July to capture and Independence Day. Up to a million people visit it annually, and in 1999 the festival entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest music festival.

Most of Milwaukee's public events take place on the shore of the lake. Among them, the mass of summer ethnic festivals - Polish in June; French, Greek, Italian and German in July; African, Arabic, Irish, Mexican and Indian in August. In addition, the city hosts the Pride Festival of Minorities and the November Trainfest - America's largest show of guided railway models.