 The museum intended to keep a few of the animals and sell the others to finance its operations , but Mildred Compton returned from a visit to the 1973 National Carousel Roundtable convinced that it should instead restore all of them and recreate the working carousel in its planned new building . But no space had been allocated to allow the display of such a large exhibit , requiring the plans to be adjusted . Columns required in the original layout were removed to allow the carousel 's installation on the fifth floor . 
