Yesterday, with this tweet "After 31 years of operation, we will close our doors on Sun., Oct. 17, 2010 to focus on monetary contributions on the Liberace Foundation," the Las Vegas-based Liberace Museum that houses Liberace's cars, pianos and entertainment memorabilia, announced it's closing.
Read Julie Lawrence's 2007 story on the museum here. Get more information on the closing of the museum from the LasVegas Review-Journal.
The physical museum will close, but the Milwaukee-born piano player's foundation will remain. Liberace died in 1987.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
