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'Milwaukee Revealed:' Public Museum gallery sketches unveiled
The Milwaukee Public Museum leaders and exhibit design partners at Thinc Design unveiled sketches of the Future Museum’s Milwaukee Revealed gallery on Friday, April 14.
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) leaders and exhibit design partners at Thinc Design unveiled sketches of the Future Museum’s Milwaukee Revealed gallery on Friday, April 14.
A news release says in the Milwaukee Revealed gallery, "visitors will find a charmingly familiar urban streetscape, set at the magical hour of dusk, featuring stores and buildings. Closer inspection will reveal hidden details, historical stories and interactive features just waiting to be discovered. Open a door, peer through a window or find the secret lever to discover a hidden history or learn about the familiar from a totally new and unfamiliar perspective. The gallery not only takes visitors back in time, but also behind walls and under the surface of the here-and-now."
The Milwaukee Public Museum said one of its most popular exhibits that visitors are looking forward to at the current museum is the Streets of Old Milwaukee. When the museum asked people why, they found a common theme.
"For many people, their love of The Streets of Old Milwaukee is not about any particular object or storefront but rather the feeling that they have when they walk through the exhibit," said the Milwaukee Public Museum President and CEO Ellen Censky.
Museum leaders said that they will be incorporating that familiar feeling into the new Milwaukee Revealed gallery, which will offer visitors the chance to step into the past and walk through a Milwaukee neighborhood.
"You’re going to walk into a streetscape that should feel very familiar," said Helen Divjak, a Think Design senior curator." Yet you are seeing the new."
The museum also shared something else visitors might enjoy.
Rendering: Milwaukee Revealed, Mitchell Building
"There might be a granny to discover in the neighborhood, too," said Divjak.
The museum said it also plans to create a digital scan of the Streets of Old Milwaukee and the European Village Exhibits, so visitors can get a virtual reality experience at the future location.
"Enabling us to preserve these beloved exhibit experiences for the next generation," said Censky.
Rendering: Milwaukee Revealed, neighborhood
The new museum also has the Haymarket Candy Shop, where you can get a sugar high.
"There will be real candy for sale there," said Divjak.
Expect to also learn about Milwaukee's beer history.
"German and Poles were immigrating all over the United States," said Divjak. "But they brought their beer-making traditions to Milwaukee."
MPM shared a sampling of some of the exhibit features for the Commercial and Neighborhood areas of this gallery. Officials say the final gallery will also include immersive exhibits about Milwaukee’s relationship with its rivers and Lake Michigan.
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Rendering: Milwaukee Revealed: Schlitz Palm Garden
The news release says at each turn, the new gallery will reveal to visitors the ways in which residents of a city or community interact with the natural environment and how those choices and behaviors impact neighbors and a community’s collective future. Considered the spiritual successor to the Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit currently part of MPM, the Milwaukee Revealed gallery will give visitors the unique opportunity to immerse themselves wholly into Milwaukee’s many facets, getting lost in the gallery and discovering something new with each visit.
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Rendering: Milwaukee Revealed, Haymarket Candy Store