A beautiful location on the shores of Lake Michigan, Discovery World is dedicated to helping students in understanding today's technology and ecosystems, hoping to create a positive impact on our environment. Here at Milwaukee's Pier Wisconsin, this 120,000 square foot facility helps visitors connect with innovation, science, technology and the environment. Visitors are surrounded by a 3-D virtual environment, with exhibits to pilot a plane, lie on a bed of nails, and take a journey into a nuclear reactor. Step into the aquatic world in Discovery World's Touch Tank, or head out into Lake Michigan aboard the 137 foot Denis Sullivan. Perhaps you're a landlubber, so enjoy a technology that has shaped modern music at the Les Paul House of Sound.
   This vivid night scene captures a quiet Discovery World, with the Denis Sullivan moored at its winter home. A re-creation of an 1880s Great Lakes cargo schooner, the Denis Sullivan enjoys the latest communications and navigational gear. Although powered with twin diesel engines, the schooner offers students the chance to set the sails, man the lines and take a turn at the helm. USCG certified as a sailing school vessel, students are also supervised in the ship’s scientific lab, with studies of water quality, biology, and conservation. The Lake Watch Program involves students in grades 4-12. The vessel carries up to 50 day passengers and 21 overnight guests. The Denis Sullivan travels over 18,000 nautical miles a year, wintering in southern Florida. Its journeys travel throughout the Great Lakes, along the Atlantic Coast, and into the Caribbean, studying the entire hydrological cycle.

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