Milwaukee County Zoo Master Plan and Future Renovations

Where did you find this information???

 

From the county’s website

 

Does anyone know where previous zoo master plans can be found. Been curious about the difference between them as well as what’s been the focus with each master plan.

 

Milwaukee County Zoo Master Plans and Actual plans

This is the best I have at the moment!

 

I have all of these, thanks for sharing though I appreciate it. I’m looking for the past ones prior to the 2013 master plan. Did milwaukee have one?

 

I figured you did, but I thought I would share anyway, haha
That is a great question. I have no idea if they have any previous ones. I'm anxiously waiting for the new ones to come out! I am really curious to see what the new director has in store for us.

 

Aside from the Capital Campaign projects from the 1990s/early 2000s, which consisted mostly of individual building/exhibit renovations (Big Cats, Macaque Island, A&R, Animal Hospital etc) I don't think there has been a "Master Plan" since the 1980s with "Underwater World" Although I'm not sure that was a master plan either, more a string of expansions and renovations with a similar goal: underwater viewing. The 2013 Master Plan may have been the first one for Milwaukee in quite a long time.

 

I would love to hear about "Underwater World"!

My first visit to Milwaukee was 2001 and I have zero memory of the early Monkey Island but I do distinctly recall the original Big Cat House. Would love to see some photos if anyone has some to match my memories. It was my first time seeing cougar I know. I might recall the original giraffe house too but much less sure about that without photos.

I also have some photos of the sea lions when they lived by the polar bears, the old wolf exhibit, when the red pandas lived by the camels, the koala and myself by the old moose exhibit... sadly nothing of the cats, though I do sometimes wonder if any of those old photos are worth uploading here.

 

They would be worth uploading if anyone has some photos. I definitely remember the big cat building before the renovations

 

Looking into it a little further, "Underwater World" was the underwater viewing for polar bears, seals, and the new Humboldt penguin exhibit and Dolphin Show Arena (now sea lion show). The New New Zoo was a master plan from the late 1980s/early 90s that included those projects. I recall seeing some renderings of a grand entrance and walrus exhibit (obviously, that didn't pan out) in an old issue of Alive magazine, but I cannot find it at the moment. But here's a link to the past issues of Alive magazine for anyone interested in that:
Alive Magazine Archive - Zoological Society of Milwaukee
There's lots of tidbits of old information in these, really cool to go back through the archives and read!

 

Where did you find it, when clicking on the link it brought me to modern day.

 

There should be a page list towards the bottom of the screen, similar to the ones at the bottom of thread pages on zoochat. There are 8 pages in the archive