Milwaukee Fun Facts

The name Milwaukee comes from the Native American word “Milliocki” meaning gathering place by the water.

Milwaukee is the 22^nd largest city in America.

This Jewel of the Great Lakes is home to Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This eleven-day event boasts 10 ground stages and a 23,000-seat amphitheater featuring a variety of music, from national headline acts to up-and-comers.
The Allen Bradley Clocktower is one of Milwaukee’s most recognizable landmarks. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Allen Bradley Clock as the largest four-faced clock in the world. It is actually four separate clocks, each with an octagonal face nearly twice the size of the clocks on London’s Big Ben Tower. The clock serves as an official navigation aid and is so designated on the maps of the United States Coast Guard.

Milwaukee’s first larger brewery opened in 1841. By 1856, the city boasted 26 local breweries.

The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee in 1867 by Christopher Latham Sholes.

The skywalk over the Milwaukee River is the only skywalk in the U.S. that spans a river used by boats.

The exhibit hall of the Midwest Airlines Center can hold 555 city buses, end-to-end and side-by-side.

The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Burke Brise Soleil (the “wings”) wingspans spreads 217 feet at its widest point, wider then a Boeing 747.

The Milwaukee Public Museum is home to the world’s largest dinosaur skull.

Milwaukee was the first city to engineer a major league franchise shift when the Braves, formally of Boston, came to Milwaukee.