{"id":2722,"date":"2011-11-01T12:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2011-11-01T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:44:15","slug":"free-admission-on-thursday-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/11\/free-admission-on-thursday-november-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Free admission on Thursday, November 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Museum offers up free admission days to area families, vets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013<\/strong> The Milwaukee Art Museum is continuing its highly-successful program, Target Free First Thursday, on Thursday, November 3 and Thursday, December 1. Admission is free for all individuals and the program offers the opportunity to see <em>Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts<\/em>, and <em>Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/em> for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to our visitors,\u201d said Museum director Daniel Keegan. \u201cIn the past year, over 21,000 people have participated in Target Free First Thursdays. The Museum is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, which allows for more families and working professionals to share in the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Museum is also offering free admission to all veterans and their families on Saturday, November 5, and Friday, November 11 in honor of Veteran\u2019s Day. The Museum Store is also giving veterans a special discount on purchases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Museum is honored to participate in the Milwaukee area\u2019s Veteran\u2019s Day activities by offering free admission to these brave men and women who have served our country,\u201d said Keegan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts<\/em> and <em>Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/em> run through January 1, 2012. <em>Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper<\/em> runs through January 8, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage everyone to experience these three outstanding exhibitions with their friends and family before they close,\u201d said Keegan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MUSEUM<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 25,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museum offers up free admission days to area families, vets Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum is continuing its highly-successful program, Target Free First Thursday, on Thursday, November 3 and Thursday, December 1. Admission is free for all individuals and the program offers the opportunity to see Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Taryn Simon: Photographs <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/11\/free-admission-on-thursday-november-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free admission on Thursday, November 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}