Since the beginning of The Muse Gallery Guesthouse we have featured art by local artists in every room of the house.  All the art is for sale and is changed out 3 times a year.  We have an artists’ opening reception whenever the art is refreshed.  Our next artist reception will occur on the Bay View Gallery Night (BVGN) this May.  Jeff Redmon (Scout Gallery) and Charles Watson are the heroes that organize this event twice a year in our neighborhood.  Businesses are invited to collaborate with local artists to show their work for one night and an art crawl with a map of ..read more

Story Hill Firehouse Story Hill Firehouse Guests are interested in what sorts of things there are to do in Milwaukee during their visit and since Covid, the question turns to what is open and on these days. The other night some friends and I ventured out to a relatively new venue in Milwaukee called The Story Hill Firehouse.  This is a old bungalow style firehouse in Milwaukee’s Story Hill neighborhood (about 7 miles away from The Muse) that was converted to a lovely wedding type venue in 2019. As part of her creative pivot during this last year, owner Janelle Meyer-Brown, a professio ..read more

December 8th marks the 7th annual Christmas on KK event in our neighborhood.  Businesses along the CKK 2023 map will offer raffle prizes, holiday food & drink specials, activities and more for families & children from 5:00- 8:00 pm during this beloved Bay View tradition. Visit christmasonkk.com for more information, including raffle prize listings and activities schedule. The opening ceremony will begin at 5:00 p.m. at Interval coffee shop – 2268 S Kinnickinnic Ave.  (Rumor has it that if you begin to gather there around 4:45pm, Santa just might make an appearance!) Our alde ..read more

On December 3, 2023 from 4-8 p.m. Andrew and Mary Ellen will host a holiday party and artist reception for family, friends, neighbors and artists.  The Muse Gallery Guesthouse will be decked for the holidays and new art from 12 local artists.  Please join us for an evening of revelry, holiday cheer, music and beautiful new art in every room of our bed and breakfast inn.  Featured art will include work from the following artists: Joel Richter Stacy Ollman Thom Ertl Sharon Mergener John Kowalczyk September Rain Jamie Allard Christina Zawadiwsky Natalie Shumylo Elias Zananiri Cher ..read more

Bay View Gallery Night – June 2, 2023 A couple of really great guys named Jeff Redmon and Chuck Watson started a very fun event twice a year in the Bay View neighborhood called Bay View Gallery Night.  Businesses can sign up to participate and become an art gallery for the evening if they are not one already.  All the businesses are put on a map and from 5-10 p.m. that night the streets are full of art lovers crawling from place to place to see art and enjoy an evening together at the various locations.  Naturally because we are a bed and breakfast inn that feature art on the wa ..read more

It’s a beautiful day today in Bay View. Help us make this ugly wall a work of art. Join us for a fun day of painting a mural with esteemed Milwaukee muralist, John Kowalczyk at The Muse Gallery Guesthouse 601 E Lincoln, Bay View. The event is part of a series of Community Day Events scheduled this Saturday (June 12th) throughout the Bay View neighborhood. John will have coded the wall we are painting like a paint- by-number-picture.  All are welcome – young and old! Wear paint clothes and come be part of something fun and beautiful from Noon til 2:00 p.m. Participants of the various Bay ..read more

Our guests know that things are different these days when they come to visit.  When they ask what fun and Covid-safe things there are to do in the area or where they may dine-in (or in this case dine-outside) we are happy to suggest the South Shore Terrace chalets. These chalets are an example of some of the creative pivoting we have seen in the neighborhood during the pandemic.  The County Parks system has a beer garden at the Lake Michigan shore in Bay View – just a mile from The Muse, and this winter they decided to keep it open.  Chalets for up to 6 people can be rented in ..read more

Well a week ago we probably wouldn’t have suggest this at all because the temps were so bitterly cold and there was so much snow…but thankfully the weather is beautiful for the next little while.  It’s time for you to come to The Muse (and not just to hibernate in some other place during the pandemic!) and get out and enjoy the outdoors. The “MKE It An Ice Day” series is on downtown with an 8-foot-tall sculpture of two bears outside the Marcus Performing Arts Center at 929 N. Water St. And an ice sculpture of angel wings will be outside of Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel at 139 E. Kilbourn Av ..read more

Happy New Year from Andrew and Mary Ellen at The Muse.  And an added wish for better days ahead for all of us. March 2020 came and we were enjoying our annual rest on Tybee Island, Georgia, just barely aware of this thing called Covid.  The President announced a travel ban and the next thing we knew every time we picked up the phone to check emails we had another slew of cancellations.  By the end of our time down there – the third week of March, EVERY SINGLE RESERVATION for the year had been cancelled (some $41K in lost bookings!). Needless to say we were in shock about this an ..read more

Covid pandemic got you down?  Sad that the summer is passing you by and many things you used to enjoy aren’t happening?  Well the good folks of Bay View – a very hip and happening neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin under the leadership of Christa Marlowe and Kate Fowdy together with 39 families/ businesses have come up with a fun activity for today, July 25th.  They have assembled a variety of Covid -safe things to see and do on the porches and in the yards of Bay View residents and businesses from 10-2 today and are calling it Bay View Adventure Club Community Day. Participan ..read more