Rentals

The Museum’s events department and a sales and events manager can help you through the rental and event planning process, keeping the focus on what will make your gathering a success.

One of our sales and events managers can place a reservation, provide further rental and event planning information, meet personally for a tour, officially book a rental space, and assist you from beginning to end with the many aspects of your event.

Among the amenities and options available to Museum rentals:

• Access to either the Museum’s collection galleries or featured exhibition
• Movement of the Burke Brise Soleil
• The Museum’s in-house catering service, including tastings
• Secure, heated parking directly beneath Windhover Hall with 98 spaces
• Views of Lake Michigan, McKinley Marina, Pier Wisconsin, and downtown Milwaukee

Room rental deposit

To officially book an event space at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a nonrefundable deposit of 50% of the estimated rental fee is required upon signing the Museum’s Rental Agreement. Upon receiving the deposit, your sales and events manager signs the Rental Agreement and then emails, faxes, or mails a copy to you.

The remaining room rental fee balance for the space you have rented is due 120 business days prior to the date of your event. Any outstanding balance for amenities will be billed after the event occurs and will be due within three working days upon receiving the bill.

Contract conditions

To ensure a quality event with the Milwaukee Art Museum’s facilities, all set-up and decorations must be picked up at the end of the function/your event. Anything not taken or picked up will be disposed of the following day.

To protect the facility and the Museum’s art collection, and to ensure continued availability of the Museum as an event space, we request your cooperation with the following:

• Smoking is not allowed in the Museum.
• Helium balloons may not be used anywhere in the Museum.
• Attachable decorations such as banners and streamers may not be used anywhere on the Museum’s property.
• Flamed candles, balloons, smoke, loose flower petals, beads, glitter, and rice are not permitted.
• The Museum reserves the right in its sole discretion to disapprove the use of musical groups and the location thereof anywhere on the Milwaukee Art Museum’s property.
• Music must remain under 90 decibels.

Prohibition uses

The Museum reserves the right to deny the use or the continued use of its facilities to any person, organization, or corporation that does not comply with the Museum policies and procedures. The following events are not permitted at the Museum:

• Political events
• Product sales or trade shows
• Alcohol-only events
• Art displays not belonging to or approved by the Milwaukee Art Museum
• Functions on Thanksgiving Day and December 25th

Insurance

The User entering into a Rental Agreement to host an event at the Milwaukee Art Museum must maintain a general liability policy or obtain a “rider” while present at the Museum for the particular date of the event. This is to protect both the Museum and the User in the case of damages or injury during the event.

After Museum hours and event parking

Parking in the Museum’s underground parking is $12.00 per car after 5 p.m. and can be master billed to the group hosting the event or individuals may pay for parking on their own. These spaces are on a first-come/first-serve basis and the Museum will not guarantee the 98 parking spaces for any event. The height clearance of the parking garage is 8 feet. Parking with comparable pricing is available across Lincoln Memorial Drive in Museum Center Park. The Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum Center Park are easily accessible via the Reiman footbridge that spans over Lincoln Memorial Drive and takes your guests directly to a spacious circular glass elevator at the main entrance of the Museum.

Milwaukee Art Museum image usage

All printed materials for an event in the form of invitations, programs, posters, promotional materials, and sample text must be submitted to the Museum's event planner for approval. Materials with images of the Museum must be submitted to the Museum's event planner and communications team for approval. Final copies of all printed event materials must be given to the event manager prior to full printing and production.

Cancellation

Cancellation of the event by the User within 120 days of the scheduled event will result in forfeiture of all fees and deposits paid. For more than 120 days’ notice, all fees will be refunded except for the nonrefundable deposit.

The Museum reserves the right to cancel an event if the facilities are, in the sole judgment of an authorized Museum official, rendered unsuitable for the event due to fire or other calamity, an act of nature, labor dispute, notice of violations by any city, county, or other government agency, or any other occurrences beyond the control of the Museum. In the event of such cancellation, User will not be liable for payment of fees for cancelled programs, nor will the Milwaukee Art Museum have any further liability or obligations with regard to said canceled events. Should such action be deemed necessary, the Milwaukee Art Museum guarantees that it will offer suitable time(s) for rescheduling.