Grand Walk: Self-Guided Audio Tour Milwaukee

Embark on a self-guided audio tour of Milwaukee’s grandest street, from the Milwaukee Public Library to the iconic Milwaukee Art Museum.

Duration: 50 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Milwaukee Public Library - The tour starts in front of the Public Library.
  • Baird Center - The tour passes by the Wisconsin Center.
  • The Riverside Theater - The tour passes by the theater.
  • Gertie the Duck by Gwen Gillen - The tour stops briefly at Gertie the Duck.
  • 100 East Wisconsin - The tour passes by the building.
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What's Included
  • VoiceMap app for both Android and iOS
  • Lifetime access to the tour in English
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
What's Not Included
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
  • Smartphone and headphones
  • Transportation
  • Food/Drink
Additional Information

IMPORTANT: This is an independent audio guide, not an admission pass to the Milwaukee Art Museum. The guided journey concludes at the museum’s entrance. To explore the museum post-tour, individual admission tickets need to be bought.
Experience the grandeur of the past that has left an indelible mark on the grandest street of Milwaukee. This historical,…

Location
Milwaukee Central Library
West Wisconsin Avenue
Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Daphne_h
Sep 15, 2024
Great audio tour - Great audio tour that tracks with your speed. Informative and made the walk down Wisconsin aAvenue more enjoyable. Would recommend highly to fans of turn of the century architecture.
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Helendrew2
Sep 3, 2024
Fall in love with Milwaukee - As others said, accessing the app is quite confusing. I recommend you follow the emails/texts carefully. Also, my husband and I are retired so that may explain the confusion! Also, be sure to heed the warning to not pay twice for the audio tour. All that said, we loved this tour. The design is quite clever as a GPS is connected to the narrative so you don’t have to pause between buildings. The tour guide is wonderful: pleasant, instructive and entertaining. We loved all the stops and fell in love with Milwaukee.
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Greg60546
Mar 18, 2024
A really excellent tour experience! - We loved this audio tour...the convenience of ordering/paying online, the tour choices offered for Milwaukee, the gps connection so the tour was in sync with our progress, the quality of the tour guide and the reasonable cost. It would have been even better as a loop rather than a linear route. This was our first...but it absolutely won't be our last!
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Clarissa_r
Mar 16, 2024
Outstanding GPS Walking tour - Outstanding app and tour. Highly recommend this walking tour. It is informative and entertaining. Will use this app in more cities in the future. Love the self pace. Love can do at your convenience. Love the GPS feature so you always are at the right spot
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John_v
Nov 15, 2023
Great Milwaukee historic buildings tour - The library is fabulous inside and out; must go inside to see amazing architecture and wonderful library displays. The info on the various buildings was really interesting and fun. The GPS did a great job of directing you and having you stop at the right spots along the way. Highly recommened!
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Marston_f
Mar 12, 2024
Short but good tour - The tour contained interesting facts and information. But it was very short for the price. As there were free neighbourhood tours that were much longer!
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E_s
Nov 12, 2023
Interesting and beautiful! - Architecture and weather flame (poem) was interesting. Also appreciated encouraged to go into buildings including library !
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Adelaide_f
Feb 26, 2024
Good walk, need more Context - It was a good walk. I would have liked more context about the general history of Milwaukee to supplement buildings visited . Why did people come to this city ? Who was there before them ? Ended at Art Museum which also has a gorgeous cafe space .
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Jason_h
Sep 26, 2024
Not really worth it - Audio content itself was good but app was not great at adapting to me not sticking to precise route (where even being on wrong side of street meant missed updates). I’d have rather just had a written guidebook-style description of the buildings.
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Heather_r
Mar 14, 2024
Inaccessible audio tour waste of money - Paid for & downloaded app and tour at the hotel. Our hotel was at the halfway point between the start and end of the tour, but we were instructed online that cwe had to walk to the start point in order for the tour to start. Once we got there, we were unable to access the tour because it kept trying to download something (which I had theoretically downloaded at the hotel). Complete waste of money!
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up to 15 guests
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).