点评:Surprisingly disappointing museum collection for a large city. I often make it a point to visit art museums as I visit new cities. I have been blown away by collections like the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art or Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, The Art Institute of Chicago, or the DC Galleries, or Philly, or LA... most of which are cheaper to visit than this one... and Milwaukee is just so much smaller and less impressive. Many pieces are just not museum quality or have no historical merit. Some were only about 10 years old. It is not bad by any means... just do not go into this visit expecting museum experience on par with what you find in most major cities. It is good for about an hour and then you move on with a general "meh" impression. Maybe in time they will acquire pieces from more famous, recognized, or highly regarded artists or they will expand into more space. But for now it is a small museum that is "okay" at best.
翻译:对于一个大城市来说,这家博物馆的藏品令人失望得令人惊讶。我经常会在到访新城市时特意参观当地的艺术博物馆。波士顿美术博物馆和伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆或大都会艺术博物馆、芝加哥艺术学院、华盛顿特区画廊、费城、洛杉矶等地的博物馆都让我叹为观止……而且这些博物馆的门票大多比这家要便宜……密尔沃基的这家博物馆规模小得多,也逊色不少。很多藏品要么达不到博物馆的收藏标准,要么缺乏历史价值。有些藏品甚至只有十年左右的历史。当然,它并非一无是处……只是不要指望它能提供像大多数大城市博物馆那样的体验。参观大约一个小时后,你会感觉“也就那样”,然后就离开了。也许以后他们会收藏更多知名艺术家或受人尊敬的艺术家的作品,或者扩建更大的空间。但就目前而言,它充其量只能算是一家“还行”的小博物馆。