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May 2025 | Eyesore - Museum of dirty socks?
Kunstler.com - Eyesore of the Month ^ | 7 May, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 05/11/2025 6:45:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Behold: The new home for the Milwaukee Public Museum — to be renamed the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin — in downtown Milwaukee. Kind of looks like four laundry hampers, though the official PR says “the rock formations at Mill Bluff State Park in central Wisconsin served as design inspiration.” Credit the architectural firms of Ennead Architects (New York), with Kahler Slater (Milwaukee).

Like many state museums, this one is a hodgepodge of history, nature (what used to be called natural history), ethnography (i.e., Indians), DEI nonsense (hey, it’s Wisconsin), and a miscellany of artifacts and freakish stuff that was the stock-in-trade of old-time Midwestern raree shows: a stuffed ivory-billed woodpecker (extinct). . . the William J. Uihlein Postage Stamp Collection. . . a deck of “Apache playing cards”. . . the skeleton of a mammoth found by farmer John Hebior in Kenosha County. . . costumes from Deakin's Lilliputian Comic Opera (a theater company of midgets circa 1880s). . . The DeFlores Collection of Disney Memorabilia, 1965-1987. . . and a clay seal imprinted with a hieroglyph signifying the name Tutankhamen (a.k.a. King Tut). Heck, I’d pay ten bucks to see all that!

Below is an artist’s rendering of the lovely public plaza attached to the laundry hampers — as usual in American landscape design, an ambiguous zone with no formal elements, arbitrary tree plantings, and apparently no seating (homeless magnets). It’s how we roll!



TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: architecture

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1 posted on 05/11/2025 6:45:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: Robert A Cook PE

EYESORE of the month ping


2 posted on 05/11/2025 6:46:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

You can go see “the rock formations at Mill Bluff State Park in central Wisconsin” anytime you want - why do you have to see them every day in the middle of Milwaukee?


3 posted on 05/11/2025 6:59:50 AM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: MtnClimber

I can smell the stink-foot from here. It reminds me of the hazelnut coffee creamer I bought by mistake.


4 posted on 05/11/2025 7:15:05 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

Odd...


5 posted on 05/11/2025 7:24:16 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber
And that "inspiration?"

Don't think so.... The inspiration was likely PUBLIC MONEY.

6 posted on 05/11/2025 7:27:31 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

American architecture has evolved from hideous Brutalism to now the melted look envisioned by Salvatore Dali’s famed melted watches. At there no worthy successors to Frank Lloyd Wright?


7 posted on 05/11/2025 7:46:55 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

I guess not.


8 posted on 05/11/2025 8:44:38 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m planning on going there right after visiting The House of Mud, and the second-largest ball of twine.


9 posted on 05/11/2025 8:46:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: equaviator
Where I used to live in Oregon there was a hazelnut orchard just down the road.
I would occasionally get a bag of hazelnuts to snack on, yummy.
Why is it that the artificial(?) ‘hazelnut’ creamers and other supposedly
’hazelnut’ flavored food items taste disgusting - not like hazelnuts at all?
Or is it just me? I don’t think so….
10 posted on 05/11/2025 9:15:52 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis

Not only does it taste good, it’s good for you. You just have to “trust the science”.


11 posted on 05/11/2025 9:47:32 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

As irkitecture goes, this museum rates a solid “meh”, but I’ve seen worse...a lot worse. Would be interesting to see what it looks like inside.


12 posted on 05/11/2025 11:28:54 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: MtnClimber

Brutalist architectural style meets smelly, dirty laundry.


13 posted on 05/11/2025 12:30:27 PM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: MtnClimber

Another magnificent example of Democrat design.


14 posted on 05/12/2025 5:46:14 AM PDT by oldtech
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