Living - Places - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Visit the cultural, recreational, business, and community places and spaces of Madison
- Sites: Places such as parks, buildings, public gardens and zoos, notable buildings, libraries, interesting places
- Alliant Ctr: Alliant Energy Center of Dane County; multi-use center for expositions, conventions, conferences meetings, banquets, consumer shows, outdoor events, and concerts; 66-hectare campus; Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Exhibition Hall, Willow Island, the Arena Building
- Arboretum: University of Wisconsin--Madison's display of trees and plants; conserves and restores Arboretum lands, advances restoration ecology, and fosters the land ethic; 510 hectares south of Lake Wingra
- Breese Stevens: Breese Stevens; dates back to 1926
- Capitol Neighborhoods: Neighborhood association of areas around Capitol Square
- Cherokee Marsh: wetland in Dane County, Wisconsin; located upstream from Lake Mendota along the Yahara River and Token Creek; over 800 hectares
- Downtown: Downtown Madison Inc. Business Improvement District (BID); provides information about Madison's downtown
- FoodSpot: Directory of Wisconsin restaurants
- Farm Fresh Atlas: Wisconsin's Farm Fresh Atlases; regional food guides include farms, farmers' markets, restaurants, stores and other businesses that sell local food and use sustainable production and business practices; most regions of Wisconsin
- Library MPL: Madison Public Library; city of Madison's public library
- Library WPLC: Wisconsin Digital Library; online digital public library for e-books, audio, and digital content to a wide range of devices; Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC)
- Mqt Neighborhood: Marquette Neighborhood Association
- Monona Terrace: Community and convention center; on Lake Monona, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
- Nature Ctr Leopold: Aldo Leopold Nature Center; a 19 hectare conservation park
- Neighborhoods: City of Madison Neighborhood Associations directory
- Olbrich Gardens: Olbrich Botanical Gardens; offers conservatory, outdoor display gardens, 6 hectares on Lake Monona
- Overture Ctr: Overture Center for the Arts; in downtown Madison which includes performing and visual arts facilities
- Parking: places and information about parking automobiles in Madison
- Parks: City of Madison Parks Division
- Parks-Dane: Dane County Parks
- Planetarium: Madison Metro. School District planetarium; offers public shows
- Union: Wisconsin Union
- Visitor Ctr: Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau; offers calendar of events as well as visitor information
- Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright sites; Wisconsin-wide sites of this well-known 20th-century architect with Wisconsin ties
- Washburn Observatory: astronomical observatory on UW Campus; completed in 1881; open houses; Introductory Astronomy courses; 15-inch refractor with a magnification of about 500; located at 1401 Observatory Drive on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
- WI State Herbarium: University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium; founded in 1849; a museum collection of dried, labeled plants of state, national and international importance; world's largest collection of Wisconsin plants
- Zoo: Henry Vilas Zoological Society; a free community zoo displaying a variety of animals
- Museums:
- Art MMoCA: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; display of over 4,000 art objects from modern (20th century) and contemporary (1970's on) times
- Art UW Chazen: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin--Madison; university art museum; formerly known as Elvehjem Museum of Art
- Children's: Madison Children's Museum
- Geology: University of Wisconsin--Madison, Department of Geoscience's Geology Museum; offers outreach, research, and collections to view
- Historical: Wisconsin Historical Society museum; galleries, permanent exhibits, museum store, on Capitol Square
- Mustard: National Mustard Museum; Middelton
- Physics: L.R. Ingersoll Museum; physics museum located on the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus in Chamberlin Hall; exhibits focus on demonstrating basic physical concepts ranging from mechanics to modern physics; historical instruments and photos of the Nobel Prize Winners in Physics from 1901-1993
- Veterans: Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison; tells the story of men and women from the Badger State who served in America's conflicts from the Civil War to the present
- Zoological: University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum; University of Wisconsin, L.E. Noland Zoology Building; works on the preservation, study, and understanding of the vertebrate and aquatic fauna of Wisconsin, the Midwest, and other parts of the world
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