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 414-224-3287 or rentals@mam.org.

Related Links:

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