Looking for the Most Exotic and Ornate Milwaukee Movie Palace? Be Sure to Visit Oriental Theater Milwaukee

The Oriental Theatre is located on the East Side of the neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was built in the year 1927 for watching movies. The themes and decor are of East Indian origin with no traces of Chinese and Japanese culture. Some of the designs found in the theatre making this exotic and ornate are 2 minarette towers, 3 stained glass chandeliers, several hand drawn murals, 6 life sized Buddhas, dozens of original draperies, 8 porcelain lions and hundreds of elephant designs.

Owned by the Landmark theater groups, the theater is officially known as Oriental Landmark Theater with independent and art films and a few Hollywood films that have made a blockbuster on the screen. The theater is a world record holder for continuous shows of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and has been commended as one of the "10 Theaters Doing It Right" by Entertainment Weekly.

This is one of the oldest movie theaters still in operation ever since 1927, and is the most exotic and ornate movie palaces that has been opened in Milwaukee with the Middle Eastern meeting the Far Eastern decor.

There are three small auditoriums and was refurbished in the late 1980s for keeping the theater intact to depict the historical significance of the 1920s. The Kimball Organ, which is played once in a week on Saturdays, is the largest organ that is still intact and is in use in the US.

The theater is located in:

Oriental Theatre

2230 N. Farwell Avenue,

Milwaukee, WI 53202 United States