Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Milwaukee, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 40 m
Descend 63 m

Explore Milwaukee in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MilwaukeeIndividual Sights in Milwaukee

Sight 1: Sharing the Load

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Sharing The Load is a public artwork by American artist Dan Leonhardt, located at Garden Park in the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The sculpture is made of steel and stone and was installed by the artist in 1996.

Wikipedia: Sharing the Load (EN)

285 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Tip

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Tip is a public art work by American artist David Middlebrook, located in the Riverwest neighborhood north of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sculpture was created for Gordon Park as part of a revitalization initiative.

Wikipedia: Tip (sculpture) (EN)

1477 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 3: Jantar-Mantar

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Jantar-Mantar is a public art work by sculptor Narendra Patel, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wikipedia: Jantar-Mantar (EN)

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology

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Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology is a public artwork by German artist Guido Brink located on the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus, which is near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The sculpture is a steel structure that is painted red. It was dedicated at UWM's Lapham Hall on October 23, 1992.

Wikipedia: Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology (EN)

478 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Float

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Float is a public artwork by American artist Peter Flanary located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in front of Sandburg Hall, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Wikipedia: Float (sculpture) (EN)

410 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Merrill Hall

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107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Milwaukee-Downer Quad

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Milwaukee-Downer Quad

The Milwaukee-Downer "Quad" is a set of four buildings of collegiate Gothic architecture on the northwest corner of Hartford and Downer Avenues on the Milwaukee, Wisconsin campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, designed by Alexander C. Eschweiler and erected between 1897 and 1905 to house Milwaukee-Downer College. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Wikipedia: Milwaukee-Downer "Quad" (EN), Heritage Website

278 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies

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Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies

The Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, also known as Greene Geological Museum or Greene Museum, is a mineral and fossil museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, administered by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Wikipedia: Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum (EN), Heritage Website

1623 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 9: Hubbard Park

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Hubbard Park is a Milwaukee County park in the village of Shorewood, Wisconsin that received landmark status in 2000. It is located on a nearly five-acre, 1,400 feet long strip of land between the Milwaukee River and the former Chicago and North Western Railway, now converted into part of the Oak Leaf Trail. It was named for William J. Hubbard, a former Village Board president. The park also contains Hubbard Park Lodge, a restaurant, and visitors access the park through a pedestrian tunnel running under the Oak Leaf Trail from a parking lot at the intersection of North Morris Blvd and East Menlo Blvd.

Wikipedia: Hubbard Park (Shorewood, Wisconsin) (EN)

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