Opportunities | Guide Training
“Milwaukee Tour GuideThank you to all who attended our 2009 class. Our next guide training session will be in spring of 2011.
In the mean time consider becoming a student tour guide!
2009 Guide Training Class
Learn Your City, Read Your City, Teach Your City!
Become a Historic Milwaukee Guide and do something important for our city.
Want to know the stories behind the street names? Milwaukee’s built environment has thousands of tales to tell. Learn about Milwaukee’s unique history from leading local scholars in eight 3-hour classes. You will be fully immersed in Milwaukee’s architecture, preservation and language.
Register for the full course and receive:
- Free admission to our 2009 Panel Discussion Series
- Free 1 year membership with Historic Milwaukee (1 year renewal for members)
- Free walking tours for the 2009 season
- Free course book, “What Style Is It?”
The course fee of $250 can be paid all at once or in two installments of $125 each, due before the first day of classes.
Special! Sign up with a friend and you can both take the course for $175 each. That is 30% off the normal price.
The courses can also be taken individually for $30 each
Scholarships available for College/University students
Current Historic Milwaukee Guides can take individual courses for $5 each
This year classes will be held in MSOE’s Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Braodway. A tour of MSOE’s new (doors opened in 2007) museum housing the expansive “Man at Work” collection will be provided and books on the museum and collection made available for purchase. Classes are every Saturday from 1–4 PM beginning February 14, 2009.
Lecturers include:
Paul Jakubovich, Preservation Planner at the Milwaukee Department of City Development
-Milwaukee Architectural History and the construction of its built environment.
John Gurda, Milwaukee-born writer, historian and author of 18 books including The Making of Milwaukee. He has been studying his hometown since 1972.
-Experience Milwaukee’s History
Annemarie Sawkins, Ph.D.; Associate Curator of the Haggerty Museum of Art since 1999; art and architectural historian; and Adjunct Professor of History at Marquette. A graduate of the HMI Guide Training Course of 1997, Annemarie has lead school groups on tours of the downtown area and co-directed pre-Civil War architecture tours in Milwaukee.
-American Architecture: An Evolution
Kathy Kean, Winner of the Preserve America History Teacher of the Year Award, founding member of HMI and HMI Board member.
-“Three Original Settlements” Bus Tour
Nancy Hubbard, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Department of Architecture at UW-Milwaukee; author and Preservation Consultant
-The Language and Resources of Historic Preservation at State and Local Levels
- We ask that every new guide practice their skills at the 28th annual open house tour, Spaces and Traces: Historic Third Ward Classics and Urban Chic, on Saturday, May 16, 2009.
These sessions provide a wealth of information that covers architectural styles, Milwaukee history, preservation and so much more. Those who wish to become guides after the course are assigned to mentors; experienced guides who can provide valuable insight into tour giving and Historic Milwaukee. Walking tours and bus tours are conducted for participants to familiarize them with the city. And, of course, you get to meet a wonderful group of people who share in your enthusiasm for Milwaukee’s history and architecture.
This course sheds a whole new light on the city. Come join us as we bring the wonder of Milwaukee’s history and architecture to the public.
If you would like to participate in this course: Register Online, call or e-mail us with your name, address, phone number and e-mail address to Historic Milwaukee, Inc., 828 N. Broadway, Suite 110, Milwaukee, WI 53202. You can also call the office for more information at (414) 277–7795. Or e-mail us at laurel@historicmilwaukee.org
