Rental Process

Booking a rental and hosting an event at the Milwaukee Art Museum is easy. The Museum’s Events department and Sales & Events Coordinators help you through the rental and event planning process, keeping the focus on what will make your gathering a success.

One of our Sales & Events Coordinators can place a reservation, provide further rental and event planning information, meet personally for a tour, officially book a rental space, and assist you from beginning to end with the many aspects of your event.

A Museum Sales & Events Coordinator is able to:

• Review the particular needs and requirements of your gathering
• Supply more pictures and sample layouts of past events in a particular rental space
• Prepare a rental agreement
• Arrange the amenities & options available to your event
• Coordinate your event’s timeframe
• Prepare the layout of your event
• Direct the many details between the Museum, catering, and outside vendors
• Coordinate music and entertainment, floral and event décor, and catering
• Furnish sample estimates from events catered by the Museum’s in-house Catering by Café Calatrava
• Work with the Museum’s Executive Chef on creating a menu specific to your event, including a menu sampling/tasting of possible menu ideas
• Schedule access to the Museum by vendors involved in your event
• Be on-site for your event

Amenities & Options Available with Rentals

Among the amenities & options available to Museum rentals:

• Access to either the Museum’s Collection galleries or featured exhibition
• The Museum’s security staff
• Burke Brise Soleil: the opening, full flap, and closing during your event
• Catering by Café Calatrava, the Museum’s in-house catering service, including tastings
• Parking: directly beneath Windhover Hall, heated, secure, with up to 100 spaces
• Corporate and event gift products through our Museum Store
• Views of Lake Michigan, McKinley Marina, Pier Wisconsin, and downtown Milwaukee
• Most rentals available 7 days a week from 8 AM until midnight
• Patio access for certain rentals, weather permitting

Planning Your Event

Planning an event at the Milwaukee Art Museum is easy. For detailed information and booking, please contact our Events department at 414-224-3297 or email us: events@mam.org. For wedding information please contact

Helpful Downloads:

• Rental Policies PDF
• Rental Amenities & Options PDF
• Catering by Café Calatrava Menu PDF
• Photo & Film Permission PDF
• Photo & Film Licensing PDF