I've visited Milwaukee Art Museum more times than I can remember. There was a five-year period when I was there especially often and got to know a lot of people who worked there at the time.

I know the place pretty well, so when I enter MAM, I don't usually seek out information, which explains why I hadn't seen the brightly-colored collection tour brochures until a recent visit.

These brochures, written by a freelance writer along with the museum's Education Department in 2006 and 2007, come in five flavors: "Impress the Out-of-Towners," "I'm un a Hurry!," You Think You're Having a Bad Day," "The Blues" and "Naughty Bits."

Each one is based on a conceptual theme and dishes up from five to 10 works from the collection. The self-explanatory "Naughty Bits" seems to be the most popular, although I especially like "The Blues," which focuses on some of the best examples of that hue among the museum's treasures. That might be because it includes a stop in front of the luminously magnificent "Madonna and Child" by Nardo di Cione.

"We've had a lot of really positive feedback about them," says MAM spokesman John Eding, who says they are a reflection of the museum's fine education staff.

"The education department is one of the most highly renowned in the U.S. -- our Chief Educator Barbara Brown Lee has been here for 45 years!"