Museums/Galleries in Chicago

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Adler Planetarium Navigate your way through the solar system with interactive and...	Museums / Galleries	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

The Art Institute of Chicago Come for the sterling collection of Impressionists (an entire...	Museums / Galleries	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Chicago Children's Museum "Hands-on" is the operative concept for this brightly colored...	Museums / Galleries	Near North and River North

Chicago History Museum Seeking to bring Chicago's often complicated history to life...	Museums / Galleries	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

Clarke House Museum This Greek Revival structure dates from 1836, making it Chicago's...	Museums / Galleries	Pilsen, Little Italy, and Chinatown


Driehaus Museum Curious about how the rich lived in late 19th-century Chicago?...	Museums / Galleries	Near North and River North

The DuSable Museum of African American History Sitting alongside the lagoons of Washington Park, the DuSable...	Museums / Galleries	Hyde Park

Ernest Hemingway Museum How did the author's first 20 years in Oak Park affect his later...	Museums / Galleries	Chicago Outskirts

The Field Museum More than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space fill this gigantic...	Museums / Galleries	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center In the 1970s a group of neo-Nazis planned a march in the predominantly...	Museums / Galleries, Educational Institutions	Chicago Outskirts

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum The redbrick Victorian Hull House was the birthplace of social...	Museums / Galleries	Pilsen, Little Italy, and Chinatown

Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art Among the most notable sights on the Northwestern University...	Museums / Galleries	Chicago Outskirts

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian Founded in 1977, the museum houses more than 10,000 Native American...	Museums / Galleries	Chicago Outskirts

Museum of Contemporary Art A group of art patrons who felt the great Art Institute was unresponsive...	Museums / Galleries	Near North and River North

Museum of Contemporary Photography "Contemporary" is defined here as anything after 1936. More than...	Museums / Galleries	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Museum of Science and Industry The beloved MSI is one of the most-visited sites in Chicago...	Museums / Galleries	Hyde Park

National Museum of Mexican Art As the largest Latino museum in the country, this is the one...	Museums / Galleries	Pilsen, Little Italy, and Chinatown

Oriental Institute This gem began with artifacts collected by University of Chicago...	Museums / Galleries	Hyde Park

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Walk among hundreds of Midwest species of butterflies and learn...	Museums / Galleries	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

The Polish Museum of America Chicago has the largest Polish population of any city outside...	Museums / Galleries	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

Smart Museum of Art If you want to see art masterpieces but don't want to spend a...	Museums / Galleries	Hyde Park

Spertus Museum This museum addresses an intellectual puzzle: What does it mean...	Museums / Galleries	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Swedish American Museum Center You don't have to be Swedish to find this tiny and welcoming...	Museums / Galleries	Lakeview and the Far North Side

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Modern and contemporary art fans head out to this small museum...	Museums / Galleries	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown
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