MILWAUKEE — Construction at Milwaukee’s new museum has entered the “enclosure phase.”
The goal is to have all the exterior panels installed by November at the Nature and Culture Museum of Wisconsin, located at the corner of Sixth and McKinley Streets.
“From the moment that we started driving piles, I would say the project itself has been going wonderfully,” Mortenson general manager Kurt Theune told WTMJ. “We’ll take all the good vibes we can get to make sure we get good weather. We have 125 to 150 craft that are here working everyday, and that will continue to ramp up as we get more trades throughout the fall and into the winter.”
Milwaukee Public Museum president and CEO Ellen Censky says the project has been overwhelming, but exciting.
“You know, the entire staff we’re still running a museum. Then we have this other job of building a new museum, and so it’s like double duty for everybody. But to get to see the new space come to life, that’s what keeps us all going,” Censky told WTMJ.
The new $240 million museum will open in 2027.
