Milwaukee: The Calatrava Effect

How’s the Milwaukee Art Museum doing since opening its new Calatrava building last year? “Our annual expenses since the Calatrava addition opened have gone up by about $3 million – and so has income, by a like amount. Membership is up from 13,000 members before the expansion to 30,000 now; admissions are running at 360,000 visitors a year, or double levels before the expansion; annual donations and a successful museum store account for the rest.”