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November 2, 2007

Brookfield Zoo: Building and Mapping of an Institution
Featured in Chicago’s Festival of Maps

Early Plot Plan for the New Zoo, other views and later views below.

Chicago Area Festival of Maps Information and Links

MAPS Opens at the Field Museum in Chicago. Opening Report

report by Ed Vincent

The exhibit of Maps is happening throughout the Chicago area, and many places have their exhibits limited in scope, focusing on what they have found pertinent to their objectives. Brookfield Zoo's show tells of their early development with maps on the early plans and layouts of the grounds. The display is in the Discovery Center of the Zoo (Northern end of the Zoo)
Brookfield Zoo has evolved much since its early days of last century. Changes are happening
each year at this beloved institution, there is even strong talk of another train coming back to the zoo.

Below are some of the maps on display at the Zoo, we have shown the smaller and larger versions of the maps for your viewing.

Brookfield Zoo: Building and Mapping of an Institution
Featured in Chicago’s Festival of Maps

    Brookfield, IL—Early in the history of Brookfield Zoo, the founders of the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), which manages the zoo, declared that among the Society’s goals were “promotion of zoology and kindred subjects” and “protection of wildlife.”

    In celebration of that vision and the subsequent journey the zoo has engendered, there will be
a special exhibition, Brookfield Zoo: The Mapping of an Institution. The exhibit, displayed in the zoo’s Discovery Center lobby, opens to zoo visitors today, November 2. It continues through February 15, 2008.

    Created in conjunction with the Festival of Maps—a citywide celebration of the themes of exploration, discovery, and mapping—the exhibition at Brookfield Zoo will showcase the park’s evolution and future master planning efforts with a display of maps, blueprints, architectural renderings, models, and historical photos that give an overview of the building and mapping of a zoological park that was and is, at the forefront of design. The display includes items from the late 1920s to future plans, illustrating the stylistic shifts of zoo maps from the early cartoon like interpretations, changing guest orientation, various animal representation, and trends in wayfinding.

    The exhibit is free with regular zoo admission of $10 for adults and $6 for children 3-11 and seniors 65 and over. Children 2 and under are free. Parking is $8. For further information, visit www.BrookfieldZoo.org.

    The mission of the Chicago Zoological Society is to inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature. Open every day of the year, the zoo is located off First Avenue between the Stevenson (I-55) and Eisenhower (I-290) expressways and is also accessible via the Tri-State Tollway (I-294), Metra commuter line, CTA, and PACE bus service. For further information about the zoo, visit www.BrookfieldZoo.org.

There is no additional charge to see the Maps display in the Discovery Center.

Chicago Area Festival of Maps

Information on GIS (Graphical Information Systems)

Lewis and Clark Expedition with Multi Media

Journals Online of Lewis and Clark Expedition

Restored Signs from Earlier Days at the Zoo, in the Discovery Center.

Carla Owens Speaks on the Maps Exhibit at the Zoo to a Gathering of
Honored Guests and Media.

The original map drawn by Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), an English medical
doctor who mapped all the known cases of cholera in the London epidemic
of 1854, showing both the areas of death-infection and the pumps located
near them (one of the first cases of GIS --Graphical Information Systems).

Chicago Area Festival of Maps

Information on GIS (Graphical Information Systems)

Lewis and Clark Expedition with Multi Media

Journals Online of Lewis and Clark Expedition