Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin
Programs at Discovery World

Come and create, explore, design, and innovate! Whether you are trying something new or expanding on your skills, you'll be a hands-on participant when you take part in one of our exciting programs.

Purchase and make your reservations online now for Discovery World’s featured Events and Programs (see below)! Please see our full list of current programs.

For reservations or more information please call 414.765.8625 or email reservations@discoveryworld.org. All programs are subject to change or cancellation without advanced notice.

 

 

Members Only Programs

 

S/V Denis Sullivan Sails

Meet the Captain and crew as you enjoy these special day and evening sails.

June 25 | Wednesday | 6pm

July 20 | Sunday | 10am

August 25 | Sunday | 10am

$35 for adults | $25 for children under 12

Call (414)765-8625 for Reservations

Check back for details on our upcoming Members Nights on September 4th and October 30th!

 

Adult Programs

July 15 & 16| 6-9pm

2 Class Session

design a personal identity mark

Design your own identity mark and apply it to your business by making a business card and letterhead, or apply it to personal stationary and invitations. Bring to class: paper, pencil, eraser, fine-tipped black pen, tracing paper and a ruler.

KNOWLEDGE OF ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR REQUIRED.

$50 member | $65 non-member

July 22 | 6-8pm

graphic design seminar

BRIEF HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN AND

HOW IT IS APPLIED TODAY

In this seminar you will learn the fundamentals and basics of graphic design. You'll learn specific skills in color theory, composition, typography, and page layout. Learn how to critique design in a professional way. This seminar is designed to give you a basic understanding of graphic design, and help you start to develop the skills needed to be a graphic designer. No prior Knowledge required.

$10 member | $15 non-member

 

Family Programs

July 12, 19 & 26 | 12pm

Build a backyard weather station

Using everyday materials, build a set of devices for measuring temperature and pressure. Record your data, track patterns and changes, and be your home's own meteorologist


$4 member | $5 non-member

July 12 | 10am

ride the rails to lakeshore state park

Join us with your bike for a 10:00 am start from the Urban Ecology Center at 1500 E. Park Place, and ride down the former Northwestern Railroad corridor (now the Oak Leaf Trail) to the park. Or join us at Lakeshore State Park at 11:00 for Safe Biking Tips.

FREE TO PUBLIC

July 15 | 6-7:30 pm

lecture and book signing

CENTENNIAL: STEAMING THROUGH THE

AMERICAN CENTURY

Join Chris Winters, resident photographer and Milwaukee-based photojournalist specializing in Great Lakes maritime subjects, to go behind-the-scenes and learn what it took to capture the amazing images featured in his book, and currently on display on Discovery World's promenade.

NOW EXTENDED throughout the summer

Centennial: Steaming through the American Century

Photographs of the S.S. St. Marys Challenger by Christopher Winters

Discovery World staff photographer, Chris Winters, spent five years creating a vivid record of life aboard S.S. St. Mary’s Challenger as she approached the centennial anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. A frequent visitor to Milwaukee’s harbor and reportedly the oldest operational freight ship in the world, the Challenger began her remarkable fresh water career on the Great Lakes on April 28, 1906—six years before the launch of the R.M.S. Titanic. Granted unprecedented access to the vessel by her owners, Winters set off on a personal quest to record an old way of life in a new way by focusing revolutionary digital cameras on this revolutionary machine from another century.  The photographer and curators at Discovery World have selected a cross-section of definitive images from the Centennial project and its accompanying hardcover book for this show of large-format gallery prints.

Chris Winters is a Milwaukee-based photojournalist specializing in Great Lakes maritime subjects. Smitten with the lore of lake boats and the mythology surrounding the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Winters is a veteran wreck diver, dynamic lecturer on Great Lakes shipwreck history, and a frequent contributor to Great Lakes Seaway Review magazine. His documentary artwork and photography have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the region.      

FREE to public. Display on Promenade.







July 19 - 23

ROV DAYS:

The Technology of Exploration in underwter archaeology

PRINS WILLEM V Shipwreck Exploration

& Underwater Archaeology

MONDAY, JULY 21  |  8am - 5pm

Explore local shipwreck Prins Willem V, off the shore of Milwaukee!

From the deck, you’ll be able to explore the inside of the shipwreck using Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) technology.Participate in a hands-on program that will teach you the methods of underwater archaeological surveying, while viewing ROV footage recorded from significant Lake Michigan shipwrecks.

$130 members  |  $150 non-members  |  $100 students

Exploring the Shipwreck Milwaukee

TUESDAY,  JULY 22  |  8am - 6pm

WEDNESDAY,  JULY 23  |  8am - 6pm

Watch the enormous shipwreck Milwaukee come into view from the deck using ROV and Side-Scan Sonar technology! We explore and begin to document this significant local shipwreck, and try to determine how the 338-foot steel propeller ship ended up sinking in over 100 feet of
water off the shore of Milwaukee.  The carferry Milwaukee
was carrying a cargo of 27 loaded railcars when she went down with all hands (52) in a storm on October 22, 1929.  

CALL (414) 765-8625 FOR MORE DETAILS
AND RESERVATIONS

SINGLE DAY PROGRAM FEE

$130 members  |  $150 non-members  |  $100 students

TWO DAY PROGRAM FEE

$225 members  |  $250 non-members  |  $195 students

OR PARTICIPATE IN BOTH THE PRINS WILLEM V AND MILWAUKEE SHIPWRECK EXPLORATIONS!

 $300 members $350 non-members  |  $250 students

DEMONSTRATIONS 

July 19 & 20 | 10am & 3pm

Exploring our Waters with­VideoRay® ROVs |

Learn how to control an ROV and see what
lies beneath the waters of Discovery World.
Demonstrations will teach you the principles of ROV technology as you learn how to pilot the vehicles yourself.

 

PRESENTATIONS

July 19 | 1-2pm

ROVs & the S/V DENIS SULLIVAN

Covers the explorations of the Rouse Simmons, Bermuda, America, Milwaukee and other shipwreck dives. These dives were undertaken using a ROV or small underwater robot, as well as with Side-Scan Sonar.

 

July 20 | 1-2pm

ROV Technology & Underwater Archaeology 

Explore the innovative technology of
Remote Operated Vehicles and their
use in underwater archaeology from
the Black Sea to our own Great Lakes.

ROV DEMONSTRATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

FREE WITH GENERAL ADMISSION

 

July 30 | 7-8pm

Amazing Caves: Amazing Microbes

Join Dr. Hazel Barton, from the IMAX film Journey Into Amazing Caves, as she discusses her hunt to discover the earth's past and micro-organisims that inhabit its most extreme environments. Dr. Barton is respected as one of the top cave-cartographers in the country and is an assistant professor of biological science at Norhtern Kentucky University.

FREE TO PUBLIC - CALL FOR RESERVATIONS