Museums/Galleries in Chicago

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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