Historic Milwaukee's annual Doors Open Milwaukee event, which offers looks inside buildings all around town, is set for Sept. 28-29 and will open the doors to more than 140 sites.
That's up from last year's 130-plus sites.
Doors Open, which kicked off in 2011, includes all kinds of sites, from museums and gardens to theaters and art galleries, municipal buildings and more.
In addition to popular sites like Bradley Symphony Center, Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Burnham Block, there will be new sites, too, including Davidson Park, the new Baird Center addition, WUWM's studios in the Chase Building, Bronzeville Center for the Arts’ Gallery 507 and others.
As always, there will also be ticketed tours, which typically sell out fast. Tickets go on sale on Sept. 11 (Sept. 4 for Historic Milwaukee members). Details on those are here.
The Historic Milwaukee app will also feature app-based tours with community partners in Lindsay Heights and Historic King Drive.
Families will want to create art with the Artists Working in Education Art Truck Studio at America’s Black Holocaust Museum on Saturday, Sept. 28, and be sure to check out the “Summer to Be Seen” exhibit at Milwaukee’s City Hall.
The interactive traveling exhibit was curated by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, the state’s largest digital collection of historical LGBTQ media.
For more information, visit doorsopenmilwaukee.org.
Here's a list of must-see Doors Open sites from our own Bobby Tanzilo.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
