Dozens of other tanks follow a path around the exhibit. The Lake Michigan tanks is a 75,000-gallon cold freshwater tank in the center of the aquarium. Tank exhibits replicate a wide variety of aquatic habitats, including that of Lake Michigan, Amazon Basin rivers, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Caribbean Sea, and the African Great Lakes. The Reiman Aquarium occupies the lower level of Discovery World. Several ice-age and prehistoric animal skulls are found throughout the exhibit as well. Inhabitants include an Alligator Snapping Turtle, Tiger Salamanders, a Northern Spiny Softshell Turtle, an Ornate Box Turtle, a Three-Toed Box Turtle, a Blanding's Turtle, a Red-eared Slider, North American Wood Turtles, a Corn Snake, a Bull Snake, Pumpkinseed, and Bluegill. The perimeter of the exhibit features several tank habitats. With the push of a button, visitors can call for "rain" to fall down upon this watershed, observing where the water flows and how run-off pollutants navigate the region. It also features an artificially induced weather event. These exhibits include the following:Ī model of the entire Great Lakes watershed built to scale addresses freshwater issues, stewardship, and the relationship between humans and freshwater resources. The museum featured hands-on exhibits, computerized simulations, and science shows.Ī Mosasaur skull within the larger Great Lakes Future exhibit.ĭiscovery World contains 14 interactive science, technology, and freshwater exhibits in its 120,000-foot facility. entrance of the library, and Paul Krajniak was director of exhibit development at the time. The museum's early location was the Milwaukee Public Library, inside the Wisconsin Ave. Plans for it appeared in the Milwaukee Journal in 1981. History įounded by Robert Powrie Harland, Sr., Discovery World was initially known as the Science, Economics and Technology Center. The entire Great Lakes watershed, built to scale in the Great Lakes Future Exhibit, addresses freshwater issues, stewardship, and the human relationship with freshwater resources. Many of the exhibits have to do with Milwaukee or the Great Lakes. It contains interactive exhibits, the Reiman Aquarium, and two theaters, and is home to Wisconsin's official flagship, the Denis Sullivan, a fully functional sailing vessel modeled after a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.
The museum focuses on innovation and technology, as well as Great Lakes education and conservation. We generate excitement for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math ( STEM), freshwater education, and careers in the minds of children and young people, while playing a vital role in the workforce development pipeline." "Discovery World provides fun and educational experiences through interactive exhibits and educational programs for families and students in Milwaukee, the region, and the state of Wisconsin.
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