Grohmann Museum

The Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is an art museum located Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose collection focuses on the historical evolution and visual representation of human labor.

The museum originated in 2001 after businessman Eckhart Grohmann (b. 1936), the former president of the Milwaukee Aluminum Casting & Engineering Company, gifted his art collection to the school, along with funding to operate a structure to display it. The museum building opened in 2007 in a renovated 1924 auto dealership building located next to the city's former German-English Academy.

Among the institution's 2,000 art pieces are a large group of works by German Romantic painter Carl Spitzweg, including versions of The Bookworm (on long-term loan from the Milwaukee Public Library) and The Poor Poet, two of his most famous compositions. The collection also comprises paintings and sculpture by European and American artists including Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan van Goyen, Ludwig Knaus, Eyre Crowe, John George Brown, Max Schlichting, Max Liebermann, Julien Dupré, Norman Rockwell, and Frederic Remington.

Both the ceiling painting and floor mural of the museum's entry hall were designed by contemporary German artist Hans Dieter Tylle.