\u201cThe director of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Klaudio Rodriguez, and I both happened to be at a museum conference for American Art Museum directors in LA,\u201d said Kim Sajet, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. \u201cWe were sitting next to each other, and I said, \u2018Hey, how about a wager?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018You\u2019re on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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If the Brewers win the World Series, the Milwaukee museum will display Monet\u2019s 1904 painting \u201cHouses of Parliament, Effect of Fog, London\u201d through a temporary loan from the Museum of Fine Arts. If the Rays win, Milwaukee will loan its 1903 Monet, \u201cWaterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect<\/a>,\u201d to the Florida museum.<\/p>\n Waterloo Bridge is MAM\u2019s only Monet painting. Sajet said the painting in St. Petersburg is similar \u2014 both paintings were created around the same time, both featuring urban landscapes along the River Thames in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted something that I think everybody has heard of, like most people have heard of Claude Monet as a major impressionist,\u201d Sajet said. \u201cI thought this is perfect. It looks like they\u2019re about the same size, hung together. There\u2019ll be a mini Monet exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time MAM is putting their artwork on the line in the name of sports. In 2011, they held a wager with the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/a> over the winner of Super Bowl XLV<\/a> between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sajet said sports fans and museum fans are more similar than people might think.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere is an assumption that sports fans are different from museum fans, and it\u2019s actually not true,\u201d she said. \u201cYou get to experience the excitement of people around you or alone, and that\u2019s what you do with sports as well as in the museum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Milwaukee and Tampa Bay have placed other bets<\/a> on the World Series, including one between Mayors Cavalier Johnson and Ken Welch. Both state they will rep the other team\u2019s gear<\/a> around their respective city if their team loses.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sajet said she\u2019s confident the Brewers will win. She said once the World Series is over, she will have a meeting with the MFA to discuss how long either city gets to display the prized Monet.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMany people are talking about putting your Monet where your mouth is,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty confident that we\u2019re going to have a second picture come to us shortly. So go Brewers!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Wisconsin Public Radio, \u00a9 Copyright 2026, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As sports bettors are putting money on the line for the world series, two art museums are using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3087,115,110,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-439332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-art","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Oil](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Monet_resize_2.jpg\")
Claude Monet (French, 1840\u20131926), Houses of Parliament: Effect of Fog, London, 1904. This painting is currently on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts,
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