Museums & Attractions
- The world’s first and only Harley-Davidson Museum opened in Milwaukee in July. The museum is expected to attract an estimated 350,000 visitors to the city annually. Three buildings house the Harley-Davidson Museum and Archives, restaurant and cafe, retail store and special event space. Indoor special event space can accommodate meetings in theater-style seating for as large as 1,000 and sit-down dinners for as many as 750. Six separate breakout rooms accommodate approximately 40 to 190 in theater-style seating. Outdoor special event space can handle up to 15,000 people with full-service catering. For more information, call 414.287.2700 or visit www.harley-davidson.com.
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art in November will debut its fully renovated Tobias Theater, or The Toby, which will present multimedia performances, cinema and talks by internationally renowned speakers. In addition to musical performances and talks, The Toby will be a venue for two new film series: Winter Nights and One-Two Punch. Winter Nights will feature classic films, while the One-Two Punch series features film pairings, such as films that have influenced each other or two dissimilar films by the same director. The IMA completed a $74 million expansion project in May 2005 that featured three new wings and 50 percent more gallery space. For more information, call 317.923.1331 or visit www.imamuseum.org.
Kudos
- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company offers groups a new opportunity at team building called VolunTeaming under The Ritz-Carlton Community Footprints umbrella of social responsibility programs. Available at all Ritz-Carlton hotels throughout the world, groups may select from as little as two-hour activities to a full day of working together, depending upon their schedules and interests. For example, group guests can partner with the Greater New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to rebuild homes in the city neighborhoods most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, join Park Rangers in Boston Harbor Islands National Park on stewardship projects to protect the islands’ fragile eco-system, or become Turtle Guardians in Cancun, assisting mother turtles during nesting. In Bike Build for Charity, group participants compete build children’s bikes for presentation to a local children’s charity. For more information, call toll-free 800.241.3333, or visit www.volunteaming.com.