Part of what so many Milwaukeeans love in regards to the present Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St., is the profusion of so-called Easter eggs, little considerably hidden gems that folk love realizing about and sharing with others.
Things like not one however two snake buttons; the beer can resting on the mattress of the “Living Oceans” exhibit; the little plastic dinosaurs within the Silurian reef; Abby the cat perched between buildings in “The Streets of Old Milwaukee”; the howler monkey button within the rainforest; the creepy children peering out an higher window within the “European Village”; the little mezzanine window overlooking the Guatamalan market.
The new museum, development of which is about to begin this summer time on sixth and McKinley, with an anticipated opening in early 2027 can even have these sorts of Easter eggs, in accordance with MPM’s Madeline Anderson, who spoke to me Tuesday morning in a Facebook Live recorded in “The Streets of Old Milwaukee.”
Folks from MPM and Thinc Design, which is engaged on the Future Museum’s exhibit designs, just lately obtained collectively to determine a couple of of those Easter eggs for the brand new museum.
In the “Milwaukee Revealed” exhibition, there will probably be three interactive beer steins that may set off audio surprises when visitors carry their lids, and Abby the cat can even be making the transfer, we realized at present.
Outside the Daniel M. Soref Planetarium, a movement sensor will use customer actions to kick off a meteor bathe.
Recreations of coprolites – aka dino poop – can even set off surprises.
And, there will probably be two snake buttons, similar to on the present museum.
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One will probably be within the “Living in a Dynamic World” gallery and one other will probably be positioned within the “Winifred & Spencer Kellogg Gallery: Wisconsin Journey!”
“We know that’s what everyone loves about this museum, not just the snake buttons but those Easter eggs, those elements of surprise, and sharing that insider scoop with family and friends, so we wanted to carry that tradition forward in the new museum,” says Anderson.
Here is the total Facebook Live with Madeline Anderson, and, keep in mind, the primary Thursday of each month – like this Thursday – is Kohl’s Thank You Thursday, which suggests museum admission is free for everybody.
