{"id":43,"date":"2005-04-20T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org.php5-5.websitetestlink.com\/info\/pressroom\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:42:43","slug":"milwaukee-art-museum-celebrates-museums-week-with-opening-of-new-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2005\/04\/milwaukee-art-museum-celebrates-museums-week-with-opening-of-new-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Art Museum Celebrates Museums Week with Opening of New Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI, April 20, 2005\u2014 The Milwaukee Art Museum will participate in the celebration of our state&#8217;s first <em>Wisconsin Museums Week <\/em>(May 14 &#8211; 22) and <em>International Museum Day <\/em>(May 18). The Museum&#8217;s next feature exhibition, <em>The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World <\/em>opens Thursday, May 19 with a celebration from 5-8 p.m.<!--more-->\u00a0Visitors will enjoy a lecture by the exhibition curator and a celebratory reception in honor of opening night.<\/p>\n<p>More than 35 museums are participating in <em>Wisconsin Museums Week <\/em>. Through this event, museums hope to increase public awareness of the contributions these institutions make in their communities. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Museums Bridging Cultures,&#8221; making the Milwaukee Art Museum&#8217;s international Arts and Crafts Movement exhibition a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Arts and Crafts Movement <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking exhibition <em>The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World <\/em>places a crucial phase of decorative arts history into an international context for the first time. On view at the Milwaukee Art Museum May 19 &#8211; September 5, the exhibition showcases more than 300 Arts and Crafts objects from the United States and throughout Europe &#8211; including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and works on paper &#8211; borrowed from 75 institutions and private collections. The exhibition is made possible by Sue and Bud Selig, with additional support provided by the Jerome and Dorothy Holz Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week&#8217;s Events <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday, May 17, 1:30 p.m. &#8211; <em>Degas Sculptures <\/em>gallery talk<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, May 19, 5-8 p.m. &#8211; <em>The Arts and Crafts Movement <\/em>opening celebration<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, May 21, 1 p.m. &#8211; Magnificent Performing Strings<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, May 21, 2 p.m. &#8211; Building drop-in tour<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, May 22, 2 p.m. &#8211; Collection drop-in tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI, April 20, 2005\u2014 The Milwaukee Art Museum will participate in the celebration of our state&#8217;s first Wisconsin Museums Week (May 14 &#8211; 22) and International Museum Day (May 18). The Museum&#8217;s next feature exhibition, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World opens Thursday, May 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2005\/04\/milwaukee-art-museum-celebrates-museums-week-with-opening-of-new-exhibition\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Milwaukee Art Museum Celebrates Museums Week with Opening of New Exhibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}