The work, which is thirty metres long and two metres and a half high, was built in 1983 by the American artist, Keith Haring, on the occasion of the opening of the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee. The suggestive setting of the National Archaeological Museum of Abruzzo (called La Civitella, located in Chieti) hosts from July 30th, 2011 to February 19th, 2012 one of the most significant public work of the artist: “The Milwaukee mural painting”. Haring believed that children and dogs were among the most popular and recognizable images; for this reason, at the beginning of his career, he chose these figures to become his signature (tag), in order to make his art easily identifiable among the others, who, like himself, had chosen the street as the right place to unchain their creativity. “At first my signature was an animal - Haring says - which became more and more like a dog. Then I began to draw a child walking on all fours and the more I drew him the more he became The Baby". The mural consists of 24 wooden panels made by the artist in April 1983, when he was invited by the Marquette University in Milwaukee to create a giant mural in the place where the new Haggerty museum would have been built. The exhibition is enriched with photographs, a video documenting the different phases of the realisation and some drawings by Haring made for the occasion.