Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Ninety-six years ago, on an otherwise calm April morning in 1912, the world's largest ship, the RMS Titanic, sank during her maiden voyage after a colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. On board were 2,228 passengers, including titans of commerce and industry, artists, senior members of governments, immigrant families dreaming of a new life and more than 890 members of her crew. More than 1,500 people die d. No one believed it could happen. Today, this epic story is revived through Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. See it today at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival

The 10th Annual Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival will illuminate the streets and parks of downtown Milwaukee. Thousands of lights will radiate throughout three downtown parks while sparkling rooflines, brilliant wreaths and Moravian stars set the city’s streets aglow for the six-week festival. Marvel at the spectacular sights of the season aboard the convenient Jingle Bus, a Coach USA bus that takes visitors on a 40-minute tour of downtown’s winter wonderland. For $1 per person, visitors can relish in the holiday spirit while admiring a festive panorama. The tour is narrated by Milwaukee Downtown’s Public Service Ambassadors to acquaint riders with key attractions and landmarks. The Jingle Bus will operate Thursdays through Sundays from 6-9p.m.

Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival Kick-Off Extravaganza

Milwaukee’s favorite holiday celebration kicks off with its highly anticipated grand opening, the Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival Kick-Off Extravaganza. As the official start of the Milwaukee holiday season, the night includes live music and entertainment, a visit from Santa Claus and a dynamic fireworks show. Thousands of families gather at Pere Marquette Park annually to watch as Milwaukee flips the switch, simultaneously turning on holiday lights throughout the city’s parks and streets. After the lights are flipped, fest-goers are invited to tour all the sights with free Jingle Bus rides.

Holiday Folk Fair International

The three-day event features the All Nations Theater with traditional music and dance, the World Cafe offering traditional dishes, the International Stage where young people perform their ethnic dances, the Music Pavilion with a variety of musical styles, Heritage Lane with unique traditions and customs through interactive exhibits, and the International Bazaar where cultural artifacts create a unique shopping experience. Holiday Folk Fair International will also host a United States Citizenship Naturalization Ceremony on Saturday morning and a 5K Run/Walk on Sunday morning.

The Milwaukee Holiday Parade

This is the 81st annual Milwaukee Holiday Parade and it will feature approximately 100 units and take about one hour to pass a given point. Since 1927, the Downtown Milwaukee Christmas Parade has become a cherished Milwaukee Holiday tradition.

Treasures From Zimbabwe - African Shona Stone Sculpture

Over 200 sculptures by established and emerging artists from 6 in. to 7ft. Serpentine, red jasper, cobalt, opal and springstone. Artists have exhibited in prestigious museums - Rodin Museum, Paris;Museum of Modern Art, NY and Chicago Botanic Gardens. Artists include: Witness Bonjesi, Washington Msonza, John Takawira, Jonathan Mhondorohuma, Gerald Takawira and Colleen Madamombe.

Live Music

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Cocktails & Dinner Cruises and Private Charters

The Edelweiss offers public dinner, happy hour, brunch, and lunch cruises and an array of private charter options. Milwaukee's largest cruise operator and #1 corporate entertainer in the downtown area in season. Cruise capacity up to 150 passengers

Jewish Museum Milwaukee

You are invited to discover the amazing history of the Jewish community in Milwaukee, through the photographs, artifacts and interactive exhibits of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

Pizza & Pitcher

$9 Pizza and pitcher of Lite.

Pizza Manufacturing Tour

Palermo's Pizza, Milwaukee's only pizza manufacturing tour.

IMAX Show - Mysteries of the Great Lakes

Across the Great Lakes basin, there has been increasing awareness of the vital role this freshwater resource plays in maintaining the social and economic health of North America. Mysteries of the Great Lakes explores this world treasure, which contains some of the most spectacular wilderness scenery on earth and a fifth of all the planet’s fresh water. Soar with the bald eagle, follow enormous cargo ships as they navigate the Lakes, and dive with a 300-pound lake sturgeon as Mysteries of the Great Lakes takes you through the greatest freshwater system in the world.

Planetarium Show - Seven Wonders

Travel thousands of years back in time to witness the glorious Seven Wonders of the ancient world. See ancient Egypt’s Great Pyramids and Lighthouse of Alexandria, wander through the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and stand in the shadow of the towering Colossus of Rhodes. Seven Wonders will investigate theories of how these marvels were created, then travel through the universe to let us a glimpse the natural wonders far beyond our tiny planet. Narrated by Sean Bean, Boromir from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Les Paul's House of Sound

Experience Les Paul’s House of Sound. The Les Paul House of Sound exhibit is now open at Discovery World. The exhibit is designed around the innovative and creative spirit of Wisconsin native Les Paul. The House of Sound features dozens of priceless and historical items from Les Paul’s personal collection – many never before seen in public. The House of Sound is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Featuring Paintings, Drawings & MORE . . .

Featuring paintings, drawings, and fine original graphic works from the 19th and 20th centuries, antique and classic posters, and outstanding regional artists' painting and sculpture. Among the many artists represented our internationally recognized include: Leonetto Cappiello, Camille Pissarro, Jules Cheret, Frederick Hart, Toulouse-Lautrec, among others and regionally represented artists include: Terry Firkins, Dennis Heimbach, Marie Lewandowski, Reginald Baylor, Francesco J. Spicuzza and Beastie artist, Dennis Pearson.

"Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep"

The Racine Art Museum has commissioned internationally acclaimed jewelry artist Arline Fisch to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. The exhibition, "Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep", will be a shimmering street-side aquarium of jellyfish sculptures. Bringing her work to a grand scale, RAM’s Windows will showcase Arline’s use of knitting and crocheting techniques to create these larger-than-life sea creatures made of wire.

Unmasked and Anonymous: Shimon & Lindemann Consider Portraiture

Manitowoc artists John Shimon & Julie Lindemann have made a career of conflating the contemporary with the historical. In the portraits that form the bulk of their oeuvre, the subjects are people who pass through their lives as small town residents, artists, and teachers and that seem somehow familiar. For the exhibition, the artists collaborated with Milwaukee Art Museum associate curator of photographs, Lisa Hostetler, to select approximately 50 portraits from the Museum’s photographs collection, along with an equal number of their own portraits. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann and Lisa Hostetler.

The Rep: "Eurydice"

After the success of THE CLEAN HOUSE, Pulitzer Prize nominee Sarah Ruhl returns with a haunting, new play that explores the pain of love, loss and memories. EURYDICE is a contemporary re-telling of the myth of Orpheus’ descent into the underworld, as see through the heroine’s eyes. In this inventive and lyrical play, Eurydice must decide how long to cling to the memories of her life and loves on earth.

New, Novel and Never Shown Before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection (Part II)

"New, Novel and Never Shown Before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection (Part II)" unveils some of the recent gifts received into the Racine Art Museum’s permanent collection in 2007. The gifts include large groups of ceramic sculptures, contemporary baskets, teapots in glass and ceramics, jewelry, textiles, prints, drawings and photographs.

Numismatics! Selections from the MPM Collection

Much more than just minted or printed money, the field of numismatics includes the study and collection of coins, currency, tokens and medals, and the MPM exhibit showcases nearly 200 rare, prized specimens. Most items date from the 1800’s, although a few “curious” currency items reach as far back as 2500 years, and many belong to organizations, regimes, colonies or even countries that no longer exist.

Nunnemacher Arms Collection

Discover a “curators’ choice” of 43 historic firearms from the Museum’s 3,500 piece Nunnemacher Arms Collection. Located at the entrance to the European Village, this exhibit offers a glimpse at the backgrounds and significance of distinctive pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries – an interesting blend of culture, engineering and artistry.

Student Exhibit - Thinking Outside the Treasure Chest

This exhibit is the culmination of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/MPM Museum Studies Class, a cooperative graduate program between UW-Milwaukee and the Museum. Treasure Chest looks at different definitions of “treasure,” and opens us up to the idea that value can be found in unexpected places and objects. Visitors will see a variety of artifacts, including a vest made of soda can pull tabs, a nineteenth-century German lithopane, Egyptian funerary figurines, and gemstones like amethyst and garnet.

Viking Bronzes to American Arts & Crafts: A Tradition Transplanted

After two Danish immigrants settled in Edgerton, Wisconsin, they sought to create pottery that was new, yet resembled ancient works. They called it Norse pottery and it began in 1903. The creators reinterpreted antique Scandinavian pottery and combined it with Western and Oriental motifs. The pottery is covered in a matte, dark, metallic glaze.

Big and Little: Paintings by Susan Diehl

Susan Diehl, a Sheboygan artist, was trained in the Russian impressionist style. She credits that training with teaching her to know what she sees and paint what she knows. Her scenes of beaches, flowers and landscapes capture the essence and spirit of her observations. Using color, light, shape and patterns, Diehl recreates little moments of reality.

Four Wisconsin Quilt Artists: Alicia Avila, Maribeth Schmit, Nora Radar and Roberta Williams

The exhibit, sponsored by Material Matters and Ye Olde School House, opened on October 8th and runs until January 11th. It is a stunning collection of contemporary and traditional quilts. An Open House is scheduled for November 23rd from 1-4p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

Basketworks: The Cotsen Contemporary American Basket Collection

The exhibition debuts select works from a 151-piece gift donated to the Racine Art Museum by internationally known fiber collector Lloyd Cotsen. Containing works from the late 1980s forward, this show introduces pieces by significant fiber artists who have advanced the medium of contemporary basketry. When added to RAM’s existing collection, the Cotsen baskets create one of the largest contemporary basket collections in any art museum at the United States.

IMAX: "Ghost of the Abyss"

Academy Award® winning director and master storyteller James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration - the legendary wreck of the Titanic. With the most advanced IMAX® photography, you'll explore the entire ship with Cameron and his crew, deck-by-deck, room-byroom, encountering mysteries that have remained hidden for almost a century.

IMAX: "Night of the Titanic"

The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was part human error and part natural disaster. Weather, ice, sun, moon and stars all played a part in the tragedy. Stand on the deck of the doomed ocean liner the night she sank and discover how a complex series of natural, but unlikely, events sank the "unsinkable" ship.

American Steel

American Steel: Works from the Collection of Tom and Lorie Annarella American Steel is an exhibition featuring paintings of U.S. Steel by Howard L. Worner along with photographs, prints and related ephemera documenting the tradition of American steelmaking. Compare and contrast the European painting traditions on display with that of Worner in picturing American Steel.

Latin American & Spanish Masters

Featuring Uruguay's premier artist, Ignacio Iturria. 75 artworks by 25 artists. Exhibition expresses the rich Spanish and Latin American heritage and culture through dynamic drawing and color. Artists include Miro, Picasso, Siqueiros, Morales, Lam, Lenero, Thusius, Romulo, Gutierrez, Mojica and Chillida.

The Dancing Horses Show

This dazzling spectacle features an array of horse breeds that perform alongside their trainers in this fantastic cavalcade of equestrian artistry. Visually stunning, and performed in a state-of-the-art, yet intimate, 300 seat theatre, this show is truly a must-see for any horse lover. Wheelchair-accessible, and fully climate-controlled for all seasons, the venue is both comfortable, and accommodating. We also offer customized group itineraries for Corporate Picnics, Convention Spouse Programs, Student and Youth Camp excursions, Scout Badge Workshops, Associations, Societies, and Equestrian Riding Academies.

Stop. Look. Listen: an exhibition of video works

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will present stop. look. listen: an exhibition of video works beginning on October 23, 2008 featuring 17 works by 13 artists. Exhibition organizer Andrea Inselmann, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, will present a lecture on Thursday, October 30 at 6 p.m. in Marquette’s Cudahy Hall room 001 that will be followed by a reception in the museum. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. In the short history of video art, there have been two primary modes of expression, “feedback” and “immersion.” Early closed-circuit video feeds were used as an electronic mirror, instantaneously reflecting whatever came into the camera’s gaze. More recently, there has been a shift as many contemporary artists use a more cinematic, “immersion”–style approach in installations with one or more projected images. This exhibition considers the connections between these two prevalent expressions in video from the last fifteen years, focusing on works that have a significant relationship between sound and image and those that are purposefully silent. Using examples of work by thirteen artists from around the world, the exhibition will show that a response to the moving image can occur on many sensory levels within both “feedback” and “immersion” practices; many of the works try to break down the traditional opposition between viewer and viewed by emphasizing a more inclusive interaction. Artists represented in the exhibition include Janet Biggs, Burt Barr, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Mircea Cantor, Patty Chang, Amy Globus, Jesper Just, Mads Lynnerup, Christian Marclay, Rodney McMillian, Anri Sala and Salla Tykkä.

The Fireside: "A Fireside Christmas"

Each holiday season we delight in bringing you a show that will re-kindle the true Christmas spirit in all of us. Through songs, stories, and dances – both traditional and original – we commit ourselves to capturing the very heart and essence of the holiday season. "A Fireside Christmas" is always new and exciting, with new costumes and sets, new songs and dancing, and new ways to tell the familiar stories of the season. But what never changes is our faithfulness to the traditions and memories of this most joyous time of the year.

Wisconsin Visual Arts Juried Portrait Exhibition

Opening reception Fri. Oct. 24,  6-8p.m.

Holiday Promotion

Open Art Studio

Experiment with the process and fun of creating art! Try different art techniques using select mediums such as watercolors, pastels, clay, beads and more. Making a mess is part of the fun; please wear appropriate clothing.

Win a Jonas Borthers Autographed Guitar

Win a Jonas Brothers Autographed Guitar! Help in the fight against diabetes and you could win an Epiphone Les Paul guitar, autographed by the Jonas Brothers. November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Discovery World is teaming up with the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fight this life-threatening disease. All you need to do is visit Discovery World between Nov. 4 and November 30 for your chance to win this fabulous guitar. For every Discovery World ticket purchased, you will receive one chance to enter your name in the Jonas Brothers drawing. And, for every Discovery World ticket purchased during this time, Discovery World will donate $2 to the American Diabetes Association and $2 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Discovery World MEMBERS can enter to win with a $4 contribution to be shared between the ADA and JDRF. When you sign up for a New Membership or Renew Your Membership in November, you'll also receive 4 chances to win! Hurry! Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win your very own Les Paul guitar, autographed by all three Jonas Brothers! In addition, the exhibit will use the Discovery World audio and video studios to provide guests with an opportunity to “play” a virtual jam session with Les or receive a guitar lesson from him.

Pre-School Pop-In

Preschoolers participate in music, movement and visual arts activities that encourage early reading and introduce beginning math concepts. Adults learn about age-appropriate activities that stimulate a child's development. Visit our Web site calendar for weekly themes.

Puppet Play

Young children develop social skills by participating in interactive stories, songs and puppet shows. Adults learn how to use these activities to stimulate language development.

Tot Time

Toddlers will enjoy sing-alongs, finger-play, stories and art activities. Adults learn how these experiences impact early childhood development. Visit our Web site calendar for weekly themes.

Cedarburg Artist Guild Blizzard of Art

An exhibit and sale, where all art is priced under $200.00

Shall Not Be Recognized: Portraits of Same Sex Couples

 UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader School of Social Welfare Alumni Association's Scholarship Fundraising Event and Gala Exhibit Opening Reception of  "SHALL NOT BE RECOGNIZED:  Portraits of Same Sex Couples."  School of Social Welfare Alumni Association's Scholarship Fundraising Event and Gala Exhibit Opening Receiption  November 8th.

Betty's Broadway

Children rehearse and perform a short theatrical scene for parents and peers! Using costumes, props and scripts, children learn stage terms while developing creativity, imagination and literacy skills through performance.

Children's Art in the Garden

Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum Children's Art in the Garden Catch these budding artists before their talents take full bloom as they exhibit their work at the Villa. All the pieces are created by students from Milwaukee Area Public Schools and are inspired by the Villa's Renaissance Garden at the Villa.

Register for Winter Session Dance Classes at Danceworks

Registration is now open for winter session dance classes at Danceworks' downtown studio (1661 N. Water St., Milwaukee). Winter session classes run December 1, 2008- March 8, 2009, with a winter break Dec. 21-Jan. 4. Danceworks offers classes for both children and adults, in such styles as ballroom, ballet, modern, hip hop, jazz, African, and tap. Yoga, Pilates, and NIA round out our fitness classes. 50+ classes are also available for seniors who want to stay active (or get active!). Our Studio philosophy is to nurture and develop the spirit and the body through dance technique, physical discipline and self-expression. Our instructors are experienced and working professional dancers and dance educators who have the knowledge necessary to teach varying ages and ability levels. The Danceworks faculty will excite, enthuse, and inspire you to get moving and stay moving. T