Category: Museums
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Chapter 93- Milwaukee Art Museum’s Playdate with Art
Milwaukee Art Museum‘s Playdates with Art are back on the calendar, and we met up with our new friends of Ana & Zelli last month. Little T’s school schedule got in the way, so we only got to hang out for an hour at the museum. And as it turns out, an hour is not…
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Chapter 84- Doors Open Milwaukee (Part III)
Welcome to your third and final installment of the Doors Open Milwaukee weekend! After an easy and really enjoyable time volunteering, and an in-depth tour of Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge, I took Sunday to explore. Remember how in my first post, I told you that when I volunteered I got to meet great people, get a…
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Chapter 84- Doors Open Milwaukee (Part I- Volunteering at Milwaukee Public Museum)
Welcome to part one of my Doors Open Milwaukee experience…volunteering! As I mentioned in my original post about Doors Open, I signed up to work a 4-hour shift at one of the MANY sites open to the public for free of charge last weekend, and I was placed at The Milwaukee Public Museum. I’d missed…
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Chapter 77- Doors Open Milwaukee (Volunteer Orientation)
For the past few years, I’d hear about Doors Open Milwaukee as it was happening and wish I had coordinated my life so I could attend. The idea of the event is to open up buildings in Milwaukee to the public, free of cost, for one weekend. Check out their website for a list of…
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Chapter 70- S/V Denis Sullivan, Sail & Fireworks
Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Hope you’re celebrating and relaxing. I wanted to tell you that last night, Theo and I met some friends at the Sailing Vessel Denis Sullivan for a 2 hour sail on Lake Michigan. It’s been approximately four years since we’ve seen fireworks, so this was a much awaited adventure. When…
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Chapter 59- Discovery World
Because Little T had been begging for a year, we bit the bullet and got a membership to Discovery World. It was actually sort of reasonable, compared to the daily ticket prices. We only have to go three times to make it worth the annual fee. But we went on a Saturday morning, hoping it…
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Chapter 57- Milwaukee Public Museum & Milwaukee Public Market
On Saturday I went on a Special Date (or “Feshil Date” as she says) with Little T. We put on our sunglasses and headed to the Milwaukee Public Museum’s theater and planetarium to see the 40 minute long movie “One World, One Sky” (hosted by Big Bird, Elmo, and their Chinese friend Hu Hu Zhu).…
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Chapter 55- Milwaukee Art Museum and O’Donnell Park
Because last time we went to the Milwaukee Art Museum and didn’t have enough time after the Play Date with Art to visit the Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery, we made a special trip to the MAM last week. We picked up Uncle Will and Auntie Rae and headed out the door. We had to make…
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Chapter 53- Discovery World’s Lawn, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Wauwatosa Public Library
For the second time in my life, I was early for something. We showed up to the Milwaukee Art Museum 30 minutes before they opened, so we parked and walked over to Discovery World’s lawn to hang out. We found our way to the dock and climbed on the wooded steps and talked about how…
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Chapter 50- Dinosaur Discovery Museum
A family friend recommended the Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, and since I mistakenly thought Kenosha was 20 minutes south, I decided to make a last minute trip. The museum doesn’t open until noon, so at 11am I packed up the kids, stopped at Rocket Baby Bakery for some monkey bread, turned up Katy Perry’s…