Go out in
Downtown Milwaukee.
Concerts, games, comedy, theater and more.
Art Tour + Portrait Class
Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel · 5:00 PM
Drop-In Tours: Built to Inspire: Architecture and Collection Highlights
Milwaukee Art Museum · 2:00 PM
Little Sprouts Lab
Betty Brinn Children's Museum · 10:00 AM
Connecting Community Voices: Indigenous Experience in MKE Co.
Milwaukee County Historical Society · 5:30 PM
NAGPRA Virtual Lecture: Returning to the People
Milwaukee Public Museum · 6:00 PM
Community Access Day
Betty Brinn Children's Museum · 9:00 AM
Gallery Talk: “The Shakers”
Milwaukee Art Museum · 12:00 PM
Thursday Nights at MAM
Milwaukee Art Museum · 4:00 PM
Science on Tap: Oneida Bird Monitoring Program
Milwaukee Public Museum · 6:00 PM
Lunch and Learn: Letters From the Front
Virtual via Zoom · 12:30 PM
Cocktails with a Curator
Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel · 5:00 PM
Drop-In Tours: Honoring Native Voices in Art: Homelands: Mnë’nának, Māēnāēwah, Tešišik
Milwaukee Art Museum · 2:00 PM
AIR Time: Art & Studio Tour
Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel · 5:00 PM
Dogs Help People Tour
Meet at the Third Floor elevator lobby · 11:00 AM
Central Library Architectural Tour
Milwaukee Public Library Central Library · 11:00 AM
The Art of Community
Milwaukee Public Library Central Library · Through Dec 18
Education Stations: Milwaukee of the Past
Milwaukee Public Museum · Through Dec 17
Kohl's Thank You Thursday
Milwaukee Public Museum · 10:00 AM
Science on Tap: Rainforests of the North
Milwaukee Public Museum · 6:00 PM
Haberman Local Luminaries
Milwaukee Art Museum · 6:15 PM
Friday Films
Milwaukee Public Library Central Library · 3:00 PM
Guided Exhibit Tour: Holidays in History
Top of the Grand Staircase · 1:00 PM
Drop-In Tour: Animals in Art
Milwaukee Art Museum · 2:00 PM
Sensory-Friendly Session
Betty Brinn Children's Museum · 5:00 PM
Museums on Us Sponsored by Bank of America
Milwaukee Art Museum · 10:00 AM
Gallery Talk: “Beneath the Surface”
Milwaukee Art Museum · 12:00 PM
Lunch and Learn: History of Women's Suffrage in MKE & WI
Virtual via Zoom · 12:30 PM
Drop-In Art Making: Mariposas
Milwaukee Art Museum · 10:00 AM
Story Time in the Galleries
Milwaukee Art Museum · 10:30 AM
Slow Art Saturday: “Beneath the Surface”
Milwaukee Art Museum · 10:30 AM
European Village Alive!
European Village · 11:00 AM
The November 1912 Gale: The Storm that Sank the Christmas Tree Ship
Milwaukee Public Library Central Library · 5:30 PM
Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul
Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival (Milwaukee Downtown BID 21) · 8:00 PM
Betty Brinn Cocoa and Claus
Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival (Milwaukee Downtown BID 21) · 9:00 AM
Chinese Cultural Demonstration
Betty Brinn Children's Museum · 10:00 AM
The Greatest Hits of Greatest Hits
Milwaukee Public Museum · Through Jan 3
New Year's Eve at Noon
Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival (Milwaukee Downtown BID 21) · 11:00 AM
SPARK! Artist in Focus: Thorsten Lindberg
Milwaukee County Historical Society · 11:00 AM
Uncharted Conversations: Photographer Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul
Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall · 7:30 PM
At the Intersection of Art and Industry: The League of Milwaukee Artists
Grohmann Museum (MSOE) · Through Apr 25
Gallery Night at the Grohmann Museum
Grohmann Museum (MSOE) · 5:00 PM
Close by, in Walker's Point, Riverwest, East Side
ComedySportz Match
ComedySportz MilwaukeeCask Comedy
Great Lakes DistilleryLaughing Liberally Milwaukee's 10 Year Anniversary Extravaganza
ComedySportz MilwaukeeLong May You Run – A Neil Young Tribute & Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin – with many acts! *
LinnemansThe Midnite Show
ComedySportz MilwaukeeOMB Peezy
Miramar TheatreAdam Unsworth Horn Recital
Music BuildingFeatured Reader: Songs of Life * November 16, 2026
LinnemansR&B Tuesday
Miramar TheatreNovember $10 Flight Night (Still & Oak)
Great Lakes DistilleryMullet Bingo (Milwaukee)
Great Lakes DistilleryAurore Sibley, author of Some Things Don't Burn: Art, Activism, and Arson at the Bugle American, in conversation with
Boswell Book CompanyPlaces in Downtown Milwaukee
- Pabst Theater Group (Pabst, Riverside, Turner Hall, Vivarium, Miller High Life Theatre)Concert promoter / theaters · 59 coming up
- Milwaukee Art MuseumArt museum · 51 coming up
- UW-Milwaukee Panther ArenaArena · 36 coming up
- Marcus Performing Arts CenterPerforming arts center · 33 coming up
- Milwaukee Public Library Central LibraryPublic library · 30 coming up
- Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival (Milwaukee Downtown BID 21)Holiday festival · 29 coming up
- Saint Kate - The Arts HotelArts hotel / music bar · 22 coming up
- Betty Brinn Children's MuseumChildren's museum · 19 coming up
- Milwaukee Public MuseumMuseum · 19 coming up
- Fiserv ForumArena · 18 coming up
- Miller High Life TheatreTheater · 14 coming up
- Interchange Theater Co-opImprov theater · 12 coming up
- Milwaukee County Historical SocietyHistory museum · 11 coming up
- Discovery WorldScience museum · 9 coming up
- Milwaukee Repertory TheaterTheater · 9 coming up
- Present MusicMusic ensemble · 8 coming up
- First StageChildren's theater · 7 coming up
- Festival City SymphonyOrchestra · 5 coming up
- Florentine OperaOpera company · 4 coming up
- Grohmann Museum (MSOE)Art museum · 4 coming up
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