{"id":3512,"date":"2014-03-31T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:01:12","slug":"free-museum-admission-on-thursday-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2014\/03\/free-museum-admission-on-thursday-april-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Museum Admission on Thursday, April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free admission to the Milwaukee Art Museum on April 3<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Experience<\/em>\u00a0Uncommon Folk: Traditions in American Art\u00a0<em>for free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly\u00a0<a title=\"Target Free First Thursday information \" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/calendar\/events\/index.php?eID=5143\" target=\"_blank\">Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, April 3, 2014<\/a>. Admission is free for all individuals, and includes access to the entire museum, including the nearly six hundred objects on display in\u00a0<a title=\"Exhibition homepage \" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/uncommon-folk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Uncommon Folk: Traditions in American Art<\/em><\/a>.<\/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,\u00a0<em>Uncommon Folk<\/em>, includes almost six hundred works from the Museum\u2019s permanent collection. From\u00a0<a title=\"Exhibition images \" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/uncommon-folk\/gallery.php\" target=\"_blank\">duck decoys to quilts to walking sticks to the work of Grandma Moses<\/a>, this whimsical exhibition has something for everyone.\u201d<\/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 May 1 and June 5, 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>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free admission to the Milwaukee Art Museum on April 3 Experience\u00a0Uncommon Folk: Traditions in American Art\u00a0for free Milwaukee, Wis.\u00a0\u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly\u00a0Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, April 3, 2014. Admission is free for all individuals, and includes access to the entire museum, including the nearly six hundred objects on <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2014\/03\/free-museum-admission-on-thursday-april-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free Museum Admission on Thursday, April 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-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}