As the Brewers take on the Rays in the Fall Classic, two art museums are engaged in a friendly bit of sports betting: The winning city (temporarily) gets a Monet from the other city’s collection

October 26, 2026 2:16 p.m.

The Milwaukee Brewers are playing the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2026 World Series. Al Bello / Getty Images

As the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays face off in the 2026 World Series, there’s more than baseball on the line. In addition to the Commissioner’s Trophy , the two teams are playing for works of fine art.

The Milwaukee Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, have agreed to a friendly wager: The museum from the losing team’s city will send a Claude Monet painting from its collection to the winner’s museum, where it will have a “victory lap in the galleries,” per a statement from the Milwaukee Museum of Art.

“When I moved to Milwaukee, I became a part of the Brew Crew,” Kim Sajet , director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, says in the statement.…