Rick Berry, a former Vietnam War helicopter pilot, speaks with a school group from Marshfield about the Huey helicopter that hangs in the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on Capitol Square. The museum is marking 125 years of telling the stories of veterans like Perry, who grew up in Connecticut but has called Wisconsin home for over 30 years.
The Wisconsin History Center rises in the background at the top of State Street. Leaders with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, right, hope their museum can undergo a similar rejuvenation. One plan calls for tearing down the museum and replacing it with a $140 million, five-story facility.
The state’s preferred concept for a revised Veterans Museum is at the museum’s current site at the corner of North Carroll, West Mifflin and State streets. The sketch portrays the mass of the planned building, not its architectural detail, which hasn’t been drawn up yet.
Chris Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, stands near items salvaged from the 1904 fire when the museum was in a hall at the state Capitol. The museum opened in the new Capitol in 1909 and moved into its current home in 1993.
Panoramic photographs at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum draw the interest of marketing and communications manager Jennifer Stevenson and curator Gregory Krueger. There could be more space in a few years if a redevelopment plan is realized for the 125-year-old museum.
A tin drinking cup used by Civil War soldier Hosea Rood is displayed as part of an exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Rood was the first director of the museum when it opened in 1901.
Gregory Krueger, curator of exhibits at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, has to chose carefully from a large archive of items when putting together exhibits at the museum due to a lack of space.
Civil War-era bullets pulled from the 1904 fire at the State Capitol are part of an exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison commemorating the museum’s 125th anniversary. The museum moved from the Capitol to its current location in 1993.
Rick Berry, a former Vietnam War helicopter pilot, speaks with a school group from Marshfield about the Huey helicopter that hangs in the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on Capitol Square. The museum is marking 125 years of telling the stories of veterans like Perry, who grew up in Connecticut but has called Wisconsin home for over 30 years.
The Wisconsin History Center rises in the background at the top of State Street. Leaders with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, right, hope their museum can undergo a similar rejuvenation. One plan calls for tearing down the museum and replacing it with a $140 million, five-story facility.
A tin drinking cup used by Civil War soldier Hosea Rood is displayed as part of an exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Rood was the first director of the museum when it opened in 1901.
Panoramic photographs at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum draw the interest of marketing and communications manager Jennifer Stevenson and curator Gregory Krueger. There could be more space in a few years if a redevelopment plan is realized for the 125-year-old museum.
Gregory Krueger, curator of exhibits at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, has to chose carefully from a large archive of items when putting together exhibits at the museum due to a lack of space.
Chris Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, stands near items salvaged from the 1904 fire when the museum was in a hall at the state Capitol. The museum opened in the new Capitol in 1909 and moved into its current home in 1993.
The state’s preferred concept for a revised Veterans Museum is at the museum’s current site at the corner of North Carroll, West Mifflin and State streets. The sketch portrays the mass of the planned building, not its architectural detail, which hasn’t been drawn up yet.
Civil War-era bullets pulled from the 1904 fire at the State Capitol are part of an exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison commemorating the museum’s 125th anniversary. The museum moved from the Capitol to its current location in 1993.
