Google Earth Image

Above is an aerial view of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Surrounding the museum is Lake Michigan to the east and downtown two parks to the west and south. North of the museum the complex continues with parking spaces. If you pass the park on the west you will discover that downtown Milwaukee surrounds the museum making this structure a museum within a park within a business district. This feature could make it comparable to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art since it faces the busy Manhattan skyline to the front and the serene central park to the back.  

“Milwaukee, Wisconsin.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 23 July 2009. Web. 20 September 2014.