Side Image
Page Banner
Exhibition History
  • October 27, 2007 - April 14, 2008  Physicians, Quacks and Alchemists: The inaugural exhibition in the Grohmann Museum shows you that there was a time when you'd be better off living with that mysterious ache than visiting the local physicians, quacks or alchemists.
  • July 27-28, 2007 What's New: 23 recent additions that expand the collection's breadth into even more areas of work, including fishing, lace-making and beekeeping.
  • Opened April 20, 2007 Harnessed: The collection contains numerous examples of bovine and equine draft animals.
  • Opened Jan. 19, 2007 Trains: Twenty works depict the importance of trains in industry.
  • Opened Oct. 20, 2006 Intellectual Capital: While most of the works in the collection portray physical labor, some are of more intellectual pursuits, including a notary, scholar, scientist, physician, tax collector and money lender.
  • Opened July 28, 2006 Natural Forces: the Medieval Industrial Revolution (800 to 1300 A.D.) used the natural forces of wind and water to produce food, beverages, building material, textiles, leather, paper and metal goods.
  • Opened April 21, 2006 Inside Industry 1850-2002: An examination of industrial interiors captured in paintings.
  • Opened Jan. 20, 2006 Changing Skylines: From Rural to Industrial, 1845-1963: Examines the effects of the industrial revolution on the landscape.
  • Opened Oct. 21, 2005 Renaissance of Science, 17th to 21st Centuries: Historic depictions of science in paintings alongside biomolecular models from MSOE scientists and students.
  • Opened July 29, 2005 Industrial Realism: Hans Dieter Tylle: Tylle captures the strong beauty of industrial productivity.
  • Opened April 15, 2005 POWER: 13 European artists record in 16 paintings over 65 years the massive and life altering changes bought by the Industrial Revolution.
  • Opened Jan. 21, 2005 Landscapes: 20th Century Industry: Early 20th-century European artists were fascinated by the major impact of the Industrial Revolution on once familiar landscapes.
  • Opened Oct. 15, 2004 Bridges: Four artists, 1933-1941, portray the powerful beauty of the original design aesthetics and engineering innovations of the original German Autobahn, thus providing a strong influence on other nations to design similar transport systems.
  • July 23-24, 2004 The Tax Collectors by follower of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and other important works
  • April 16-17, 2004 The Iron Rolling Mill by artist Hans Dieter Tylle (after Adolf Menzel)
  • Jan. 16-17, 2004 Erich Mercker's Large Steel Mill and Willem Drost's Geographer
  • Oct. 24-25, 2003 Sculptor Constantin-Emile Meunier's Miners from the Borinage charcoal on paper and Léon Olivié-Bon's French realist painting, The Apprentice.


The Grohmann Museum

Grohmann Museum
1000 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI  53202
(414) 277-2300
grohmannmuseum@msoe.edu