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Title:	Mining Gems: Stories from the Collection
Date:	9/8/2023 - 12/17/2023
Address:	The Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Location:	Milwaukee, WI
Hours:	Monday-Friday: 9am - 5pm / Saturday: 12pm - 6pm / Sunday: 1pm -4pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $5
Web Page:	https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/exhibitions-events/
Contact Info:	(414) 277-2300

Details:

Over the course of our short history, many stories have surfaced related to the art and artists in the museum’s permanent collection. For this exhibition, the museum’s curators have assembled many of the most entertaining and compelling tales gathered over the past 16 years. From typesetters in pressrooms giving us the terms uppercase and lowercase to correspondence from international visitors prompting the reattribution of artwork in both time and geography, dozens of narratives reveal rare insights into the collection. This scavenger hunt style exhibition will allow visitors to discover that rather than a static assortment of paintings and sculptures, a museum collection is an assemblage that evolves and grows as new works, new ideas, and new stories are collected.