Its collection is estimable — think 32,000-plus works spanning millennia and genres — but the Milwaukee Art Museum is also the kind of place you could easily visit for the architecture alone. 
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6 of the Most Architecturally Stunning Museums Around the World

Its collection is estimable — think 32,000-plus works spanning millennia and genres — but the Milwaukee Art Museum is also the kind of place you could easily visit for the architecture alone. 

A trifecta of modern masters is represented here, placing the complex squarely on the world stage: There's Eero Saarinen's 1957 modernist cross-shaped War Memorial Center, David Kahler's 1957 brutalist addition, and Santiago Calatrava's 2001 neo-futurist Quadracci Pavilion (often simply referred to as "the Calatrava"). The latter is the most iconic of the three — so famous, in fact, that it's become a visual stand-in for Milwaukee itself. No visit to the city is complete without experiencing the pavilion's cathedral-evoking Windhover Hall, the giant avian-like Burke Brise Soleil (a moveable, 217-foot wing-like sunscreen that more or less flaps twice daily), and the pedestrian Reiman Bridge that connects the lakeshore museum to downtown.

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