Milwaukee Public Museum gives sneak peek of future Schlitz Palm Garden exhibit in new home
In honor of Milwaukee Day, the Milwaukee Public Museum has released sneak-peek conceptual images of some Milwaukee elements in its new home, which it plans to open in 2027.
The museum's Milwaukee Revealed gallery, an immersive, walk-through experience, will include an exhibit recreating features of the Schlitz Palm Garden, a real beer hall that opened in 1896.
"I do remember, as a very small boy, with my father, going to the Schlitz Palm Garden," former Mayor Frank Zeidler said in a 2004 Journal Sentinel interview. "There was nothing like it for its elegance and appointments."
As previously reported, the museum will use the palm garden exhibit to tell the story of Milwaukee's rise as a beer capital, which it owed in part to its access to water, wheat and hops, as well as German and Polish workers in the brewing industry.
The Schlitz Palm Garden exhibit will include a 16-foot-tall bronze Japanese censer, a reflection of the late 19th-century passion in the U.S. for Japanese objects. This particular censer once sat in the real Schlitz Palm Garden. At present, it resides in the museum's Sense of Wonder exhibit.
In a publicist email, MPM also revealed the future location of two other familiar Milwaukee figures in its current collection.
the lion will be in the Serengeti exhibit, part of the new museum's Living in a Dynamic World gallery.
A former museum director brought the living lion cub here in 1929. Simba lived briefly in the museum, then located in the building housing Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library, until he moved to the Washington Park Zoo, forerunner of the Milwaukee County Zoo. The lion died in 1943. A museum taxidermist stuffed and mounted him. At present, he can be found in the museum's Africa gallery.
Also, the popular Pteranodon model will move to The Mesozoic Hall in the new museum building's Time Travel gallery.
Fashioned in 1987, it was at the Mitchell Gallery of Flight aviation museum at General Mitchell International Airport until 2003, when it came to MPM. At present, it hangs above the entrance to the current museum's Third Planet gallery.
MPM, 800 W. Wells St., temporarily closed its third-floor Asia gallery earlier in April to use that space as a staging area in the next step toward its move to a new home at 1310 N. Sixth St.
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