Peak At 'Time Travel' Exhibit Plans For Future Milwaukee Public Museum

MILWAUKEE, WI — The Milwaukee Public Museum on Tuesday gave a first look at some of the exhibits being planned for the museum's future new location.

The museum released sketches and further details for the "Time Travel" gallery, which will include exhibits about dinosaurs, the Silurian reef, the Paleozoic era, and many other familiar ideas. The designs and sketches come from Thinc Design. The museum pointed out that the sketches are only a fraction of what is planned for the gallery. Five permanent galleries are in the works, with sketches and exhibit examples for each set to be released in the coming months.

“The Time Travel gallery will trace the distinct origins and adaptations of life on our ever-changing planet and prompt visitors to wonder what life on Earth looked like millions of years ago,” said MPM President & CEO Ellen Censky in a news release. “Full of familiar, reimagined features as well as exhibits with new-to-visitors collections items or concepts, Time Travel will focus on three of our planet’s geological chapters: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.”

Here are more sketches of the plans by Thinc Design: