{"id":3455,"date":"2013-11-27T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:02:48","slug":"free-museum-admission-on-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/11\/free-museum-admission-on-december-5\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE Museum Admission on December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Target Free First Thursday is December 5<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Explore the entire Museum for free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong> \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly <a title=\"Milwaukee Art Museum calendar \" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/calendar\/events\/index.php?eID=4691\" target=\"_blank\">Target Free First Thursday<\/a> is set for Thursday, December 5, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and includes access to the entire Museum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to our visitors,\u201d said Museum director Daniel Keegan. \u201cThe Museum\u2019s feature exhibition, <a title=\"exhibition homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/thomas-sully\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Thomas Sully: Painted Performance<\/em><\/a>, includes over seventy works from an American master painter, and the subjects behind the portraits, including President Andrew Jackson, Queen Victoria, and actress Fanny Kemble, are as intriguing as the works themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on view is the latest in the Currents series. Best known for his exquisite depictions of crashed cars,<em> Currents 36: Dirk Skreber<\/em> will include several of the artist\u2019s large-scale paintings, a monumental outdoor sculpture, and the American museum debut of his video work Turgidity (2012).<\/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 January 2, 2014.<\/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 \/>\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum houses a rich collection of over 30,000 works, with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and is the world\u2019s leading repository for work by untrained creators. 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 mam.org.<\/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 December 5 Explore the entire Museum for free Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, December 5, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and includes access to the entire Museum. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to offer this <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/11\/free-museum-admission-on-december-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  FREE Museum Admission on December 5<\/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-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}