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E Harley-Davidson Museum
entertainment, with many 400 Canal St. Tel (877) 436-8738.
performance theaters and art Open 10am–6pm daily (until 8pm
galleries. At the Milwaukee Thu). & (children under 5 free). 0
School of Engineering, the 7 ∑ harley-davidson.com
Grohmann Museum specializes
in artwork that depicts people at E Grohmann Museum
work. The ‘Man at Work’ collection 1000 N Broadway St. Tel (414) 277-
dates from the late 16th century 2300. Open 9am–5pm Mon–Fri,
to the present and has 1,000 noon–6pm Sat, 1–4pm Sun.
paintings and sculptures. Closed public hols. 7 ∑ mso.edu/
Eastward, the lakefront about-msoe/grohmann-museum
Milwaukee Art Museum was E Milwaukee Art Museum
established in 1888 and holds 700 N Art Museum Dr. Tel (414) 224-
a 25,000-piece collection, 3200. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun,
renovated galleries, and a vast (until 8pm Fri). Closed Thanksgiving,
reception hall, designed by Dec 25. & (children under 13 free).
Spanish architect Santiago 7 ∑ mam.org
Calatrava. This pavilion has a E Best Place
grand, winglike sunshade to 901 W Juneau Ave. Tel (414) 630-1609.
complement the museum’s Open Wed–Sun. & 8 7
windswept setting. Its signature ∑ bestplacemilwaukee.com The historic 1868 Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in
collections include deco rative 8 MillerCoors Brewery Tour Door County, restored to its former glory
arts holdings. 4251 W State St. Tel (800) 944-5483.
Pabst Brewing Company Open Call (414) 931-2337 for free and five magnificent state parks.
closed in 1996, but a microbre- guided tours. 7 Closed Sun, public The largest of these is the
wery opened on the campus in hols. ∑ millerbrewing.com 6-sq-mile (15-sq-km) Peninsula
mid-2016 and the 14 German State Park, between the
Renaissance-Revival buildings picturesque communities of
on the historic campus are Fish Creek and Ephraim on the
being renovated. The former v Door County northwestern coast. After
headquarters, called Best Place, ~ @ n 1015 Green Bay Rd, traversing the park’s miles of
is open for guided tours. Sturgeon Bay, (920) 743-4456, (800) hiking and biking trails and
The Miller Brewing Company, 527-3529. ∑ doorcounty.com visiting the restored Eagle Bluff
the only longtime brewer still Lighthouse, visitors can take in a
in operation in the city, is at Stretching like the spout of a performance at Peninsula Players,
the town’s western edge. This tea pot, between Green Bay the nation’s oldest resident
firm, which produces the top- and Lake Michigan, the Door summer stock theater company.
selling Miller beers, opened in Peninsula is a rugged New Washington Island, 6 miles
1855, when immigrant brewer England-like expanse of rolling (10 km) across the Porte des
Frederick Miller purchased the hills, lakeside cliffs, and pretty Morts Straits to the northeast
floundering Plank Road Brewery. port villages. The county of Newport State Park, can
Today, it is the second-largest comprises the northern two- be reached, year-round, via a
brewer in the US, after the thirds of the peninsula and short ferry ride. The island was
St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch derives its name from the home to the Potawatomi until
(see p451). The MillerCoors French-Canadian voyageurs’ a hardy group of Icelandic
Brewery Tour takes visitors on an sobriquet for the treacherous immigrants arrived in the
hour-long tour of its brewery and ship ping channel off the 19th century. The latter’s
the nearby Caves Museum, peninsula’s northern point – descendants continue to farm
where beer was naturally cooled Porte des Morts, or “Death’s the island’s fertile soil and to
deep inside Milwaukee’s bluffs. Door.” The area’s fishing and welcome day-trippers who
The tour covers the company’s shipping heritage is on display at come in search of peace, quiet,
rich history, as well as the the Door County Maritime and splendid lake views.
modern technology used to Museum, in downtown
brew the beer today. Compli- Sturgeon Bay, the county’s E Door County Maritime
mentary MillerCoors beverages, largest port and south ern most Museum
including sodas for children, are city. A few miles north, on 120 N Madison Ave, Sturgeon Bay.
offered at the end of the tour. Highway 57, is The Farm, a Tel (920) 743-5958. Open 10am–5pm
Milwaukee’s other major sight traditional Wisconsin dairy farm daily (Memorial Day–Labor Day:
is the Annunciation Greek and petting zoo, replete with an 9am–6pm daily). Closed some pub lic
Orthodox Church, one array of animals – cows, goats, hols. & 7 ∑ dcmm.org
of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last pigs, chickens, horses, and barn Y Peninsula State Park
commissions. Designed in 1956, cats. The peninsula’s 250-mile 9462 Shore Rd, Fish Creek. Tel (920)
it was opened in 1961, two (402-km) shoreline is lined with 868-3258. Open 6am–11pm daily. &
years after Wright’s death. more than a dozen county parks 7 ∑ dnr.state.wi.us

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