To date, there has not been a single location where one can go to discover a comprehensive collection of Wisconsin art. Wisconsin is not yet among the 30 or so states that have a regional art museum, to have a home base for the art of the region. While the mission of the Museum of Wisconsin Art is to collect, preserve and document the art of Wisconsin, our current facility is woefully inadequate to serve as an American regional art museum. In 2005 MWA began planning for a new facility and expanded programming to serve this purpose and in 2012 MWA intends to open its new facility. To become involved in supporting the new MWA vision, to become a volunteer, to learn more about our plans or to have a speaker present our plan to your group please contact us.

Why regional art museums should exist

As we search for a deeper understanding of ourselves, it is—above all else—our history that defines our existence. When comparing ourselves to those who have come before us, it is not prose, poetry or song that can transport us back to our earliest days. The single, most important record of how we as individuals, as a society and as a species have transformed throughout the ages can only be found in our artwork.
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An Independent Lens on the Art of Wisconsin and the new MWA

Mary Louise Schumacher, Art and Architecture Critic of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced MWA’s new design plans on Art City. On the design, "The design strikes a nice balance between being a statement-making structure and having the kind of restrained composure befitting an art museum. It is, on the one hand artful, a building with a strong presence and identity of its own. But there’s no showboating. Its crisp, rational geometry will not inherently spar with the art inside." --Mary Louise Schumacher.
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