{"id":3159,"date":"2013-01-01T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:10:58","slug":"free-museum-admission-january-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/01\/free-museum-admission-january-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Museum Admission January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Target Free First Thursday is January 3<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Final chance to see\u00a0<\/em>Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London<em>\u00a0for free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, January 3, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and it is the public\u2019s final opportunity to see\u00a0<a title=\"Exhibition website\" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/rembrandt-van-dyck-gainsborough\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for free. The exhibition closes on January 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to our visitors,\u201d said Museum director Daniel Keegan. \u201cSince the program started, over 35,000 people have participated in Target Free First Thursdays. The Museum has outstanding exhibitions running at the moment, and I encourage everyone to experience them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Museum\u2019s feature exhibition,\u00a0<em>Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London<\/em>, is an exhibition of forty-eight masterpieces on tour from the Iveagh Bequest collection. Most of the paintings have never traveled to the States before, and many of them have rarely been seen outside London\u2019s Kenwood House.<\/p>\n<p>Target Free First Thursdays provides all Museum visitors with free admission on the first Thursday of each month. The Museum is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Future Target Free First Thursday dates include February 7, March 7, and April 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Target, our local grants are making a difference in the communities we serve,\u201d said Laysha Ward, president, community relations, Target. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to partner with the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of our ongoing commitment to give back to the communities where our guests and team members live and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MUSEUM<\/strong><br \/>\nCelebrating its 125th anniversary in 2013, the Milwaukee Art Museum collection houses over 30,000 works, with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum campus is located on the shores of Lake Michigan and spans three buildings, including the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion and the Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center. For more information, please visit <a title=\"Milwaukee Art Museum homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT TARGET<\/strong><br \/>\nMinneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,740 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Free First Thursday is January 3 Final chance to see\u00a0Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London\u00a0for free Milwaukee, Wis.\u00a0\u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, January 3, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and it is the public\u2019s final opportunity to see\u00a0Rembrandt, <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/01\/free-museum-admission-january-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free Museum Admission January 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-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}