Milwaukee Made

Exhibitions spotlighting ingenuity in the Cream City

Four of Milwaukee’s top attractions have teamed up for special exhibitions featuring the creativity born and bred in Wisconsin’s largest city. Milwaukee Made features exhibits from the Grohmann Museum, Harley-Davidson Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, and UWM Union Art Gallery. Each focuses on an aspect of Milwaukee’s creative community from magnificent Milwaukee machines to portraits of Milwaukee people.

Building an Icon

Harley-Davidson Museum

**Magnificent Machines**
Grohmann Museum

**Portrait of Milwaukee**
Milwaukee Art Museum

MKE Generations: New Work by Willie G. and Michael Davidson

UWM UNION ART GALLERY | Aug. 26, 2019 – Sept. 13, 2019

For the first time ever, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee alum Michael Davidson and his father Willie G. are presenting artworks in a side-by-side gallery exhibition, MKE Generations, showcasing their mutual lifelong devotion to painting.

Magnificent Machines of Milwaukee and the Engineers who Created Them

GROHMANN MUSEUM | Sept. 6, 2019 – Dec. 22, 2019

From household names like the Sawzall, to more arcane developments like DESCO’s diving apparatus, Magnificent Machines of Milwaukee seeks to highlight not only Milwaukee-born equipment and machinery, but also the engineers who created them.

Building a Milwaukee Icon: Harley-Davidson’s Juneau Avenue Factory

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MUSEUM | Sept. 6, 2019 - Sept. 6, 2020

Building a Milwaukee Icon provides a snapshot of Harley-Davidson’s formative years and illustrates a chapter of Milwaukee history when the city was known as the “Machine Shop to the World.”

Portrait of Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | Sept. 6, 2019 - March 1, 2020

Portrait of Milwaukee reveals a deep connection between the city of Milwaukee and its residents. Photographs from the 1930s through the 2010s highlight some of the people, movements, businesses, and neighborhoods that have helped make Milwaukee what it is today.