From admission cost to hours to exhibits, here’s what to know before a Discovery World visit

Here are the exhibits on Discovery World’s aqua side:

• Caribbean Tunnel Tank: This 65,000-gallon saltwater tank is a highlight at Discovery World because visitors can walk through it as they look at animals that live in the Caribbean, including bamboo sharks.
• Lake Michigan Tank: In this 80,000-gallon freshwater tank, visitors will see animals native to the Great Lakes, such as shovelnose sturgeon, northern pike, gar and carp.
• Touch Tank: Visitors can touch sturgeon, stingrays and bamboo sharks.
• Weird & Wild: In this exhibit, there are fascinating species from around the world, such as poison dart frogs, piranha, pea pufferfish and axolotls.
• Great Lakes Future: This large interactive model of the Great Lakes allows visitors to see the geography of the lakes, and the exhibit’s weather cave allows visitors to “take control of the weather while up in the clouds.” The exhibit also has live fish, turtles, snakes and other creatures that live in the Great Lakes area.
• Me, Undersea: This exhibit is filled with hands-on activities for young children that will teach them about things like bioluminescence, camouflage and the effect of underwater pressure on the human body.
• Simple Machine Shipyard: In this exhibit, visitors can use the six classical simple machines to lift a variety of heavy things.
• The Challenge: Visitors can climb aboard this replica of a Great Lakes Schooner to walk the deck, ring the bell, turn the rudder and learn more about 19th-century sailing vessels.
• The City of Freshwater and Liquid House: In this exhibit, visitors learn about water as it travels from Lake Michigan to the Milwaukee Water Works to become purified, then on to our homes, and finally how the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District cleans it to return it to the lake.

Here are the exhibits on Discovery World’s techno side:

• All Aboard: This model railroad exhibit is a replica of mid-20th century Milwaukee.
• Automation Everywhere: Visitors can explore how automation is used in everyday life by seeing if they can beat AI at games, watch a foam toy being created by a machine, and opening and closing the wings on a model of the art museum’s Burke Brise Soleil.
• BIG: Visitors can learn about and try their hand at some of the mining equipment used for drilling, digging, loading and hauling.
• Block Party: In this area, there are drawings on the wall showing the simple shapes that make up various Milwaukee buildings. Visitors can follow the drawings or create their own designs as they use various-sized blocks to construct their own buildings.
• Drive Sim: Visitors can learn about physics as they use a driving simulator to race a car.
• Flight: Visitors learn about the principles of flight through a flight simulator and a Bernoulli table.
• Innovation Station: This is where visitors will learn about innovations throughout history through various interactive exhibits, including lying on a bed of nails, sending Morse code messages through wireless telegraph, and using pneumatic power to make a “dinosaur” dance.
• Kohl’s Design It! Lab: In Discovery World’s makerspace, visitors can make and take home their own creations. They can either follow directions to create projects from a museum-designed menu of options, or use items like egg cartons, old magazines and yarn from the Upcycling Wall to design and create their own projects. The lab is typically open on Saturdays and Sundays.
• Les Paul’s House of Sound: Visitors will learn about the history and instruments of Waukesha musician Les Paul, as well as be able to mix and create their own music.
• Milwaukee Muscle: Visitors learn about motors, engines and power to discover how some of Milwaukee’s innovations are engineered and powered.
• Physics & You: Hands-on activities teach visitors about different principles of physics. Examples include launching rockets, building circuits, sailing air cars and sending vertical flyers in the air.
• Power On: Several hands-on activities allow visitors to learn about different types of energy. Examples include “touching lightning” in a Tesla coil exhibit, putting your hand inside a simulated tornado and powering up different points on a map of the city by pedaling a bike.
• The Distant Mirror: Visitors can explore the technological tools used by archaeologists to discover past stories — things like CT scans to see inside a mummy and maps to see how the city has changed.
• Virtual Explorer: Visitors can don VR headsets to explore a variety of virtual reality environments.