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Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
Chicago Design Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Design: Independently owned and operated: Chicago Great Western Railroad Depot Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Railroad: Operated by the Elizabeth Historical Society, includes N-scale, HO-scale, and G-scale model railroad layouts: Chicago History Museum: Chicago: Cook ...
An aerial view of the Museum Campus Shedd Aquarium in the Museum Campus at dawn.. Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago along Lake Michigan.It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and the ...
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum is a museum located at 40 East Erie Street on the Near North Side in Chicago, Illinois, near the Magnificent Mile. The museum is housed within the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House , the 1883 residence of a wealthy Chicago banker. [ 2 ]
The South Park Commissioners, the precursor to the Chicago Park District, had just completed Northerly Island, the first of five intended (but otherwise never executed) recreational islands that were to be consistent with Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum opened on Adler's birthday, May 12, 1930.
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The permanent collection has over 15,000 objects. Admission is free and open to the public. [2] The Smart Museum and the adjacent Cochrane-Woods Art Center were designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. [3]
The museum has a 466-seat auditorium, which is part of the new wing, that hosts community-related events, such as a jazz and blues music series, poetry readings, film screenings, and other cultural events. The museum also has a gift shop and a research library. [18] The museum's funding is partially dependent upon a Chicago Park District tax ...
The museum complex and the Park (named for Alexander von Humboldt) [10] were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [11] The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2008. [12] The stables and receptory were built by architects Fromman & Jebsen in 1895 as part of the development of the park. [13]