Population Patchwork

The Population Patchwork exhibit will feature different colored yarns, leading from specific moments in our timeline, stretching across the room to various displays highlighting a pivotal moment, person, or business that improved our collective space. We are building displays on the train depot that turned our little crossroads into a center of commerce in the 1850s, Truax Air Force Base building community housing that immediately doubled our population in the 1960s, and the Hwy 151 Bypass that solidified our status as a bedroom community in the 1990s. In the center of the attached concept drawing, is a display on the Groundhog Capital, which in the 1950s, put our little community on the national stage when two senators were caught on the congressional record, arguing over which groundhog is more accurate.

The Sun Prairie Historical Museum opens Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Regular open hours: Wed – Sat (11a-4p)
Admission is free, ample parking in the rear, exterior wheelchair lift on west-side of building