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Milwaukee's newest attraction and home to the world's most comprehensive art collection dedicated to the evolution of human work opened its doors in October 2007.
The Grohmann Museum, at Milwaukee School of Engineering, welcomes visitors to three floors of galleries where a core collection is displayed as well as special themed exhibitions, so you'll always see something new. The museum also has a spectacular rooftop sculpture garden, and amenities such as a vending café and store.
The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection "Man at Work" comprises more then 700 paintings and sculptures from 1580 to today. They reflect a variety of artistic styles and subjects that document the evolution of organized work. From farming and mining to trades as glassblowing and seaweed gathering. Later, it is machines and men embodying the paradoxes of industrialism-- dark factory interiors with glowing molten metal juxtaposed with workers.
The current exhibition at the Grohmann Museum, Stone, runs through July 14, 2008. Over two dozen works dealing with this theme are featured, including depictions of marble, granite, and limestone quarrying;
showing stones being drilled, lowered, dressed, cut, loaded and transported.
The museum is named in honor of Dr. Eckhart Grohmann, an MSOE Regent, Milwaukee businessman and avid art collector, who donated the Man at Work collection to MSOE in 2001 and subsequently the funds to purchase, renovate and operate the museum that bears his name. Dr. Grohmann and his wife, Ischi, are longtime supporters of MSOE.