Posted 11:14 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3, 2009
Weekend to feature Christmas at the Domes, Art Museum, shopping
Jump-start the holiday season with an art and garden tour to Milwaukee. A weekend bus tour from La Crosse runs Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21-22.
The first stop will be the Milwaukee Museum of Art. The museum’s special exhibit is “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade and Figurative Prints – 1980s Rewind.” The museum collection includes nearly 20,000 works from antiquity to the present. Permanent holdings include: Old Masters and 19th and 20th century art, American decorative arts, German Expressionism, and more. (See more at www.mam.org.)
Evening accommodations are at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 176 W. Wisconsin Ave. (See www.hamptoninn.com.) The evening is “on your own,” allowing time for walks along the Milwaukee River walk, a short stroll from the hotel. The walk features a current display of large jewelry-type artwork by UW-L art professor John Ready. Other walk highlights include an array of restaurants, the Historic Third Ward, Theatre District, Grand Avenue Shopping Mall and the Downtown Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival.
Sunday features a stop at the first weekend of Mitchell Park Conservatory Domes Holiday Show: “A Children’s Christmas.” Self-guided tours lead through the formal Japanese garden, a street in Dickens’ London, a Caribbean beach Arid Dome, and the Tropical Dome with 450 species of tropical plants and more.
On the return to La Crosse, the tour will stop at the Tanger Mall in Wisconsin Dells for shopping.
Cost is $259 per person, double occupancy. Pre-registration is required; space is limited. UW-L's Continuing Education in the Arts Director Linda Steine will lead the tour. To register or for information, contact Continuing Education at 785.6504 or www.uwlax.edu/conted.