Chicago History Museum , museum in chicago

Chicago History Museum ,,,,,

Formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago History Museum has been collecting, interpreting, protecting, and housing the city's history since 1856. 

 Chicago History Museum  - outside :

 

Their collections include more than 22 million items spanning seven categories: Archives and Manuscripts, Architecture, Costumes, Deocrative and Industrial Arts, Prints and Photographs, Painting and Sculpture, and Library materials.

History of Chicago History Museum :

 

 Much of the early collection of the Chicago Historical Society was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, but like the city, the museum rose from the ashes. Among its many documents which were lost in the fire was a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, hand-written by Abraham Lincoln.[1] After the fire, the Society began collecting new materials, which were stored in a building owned by J. Young Scammon, a prominent lawyer and member of the society. However, the building and new collection were again destroyed by fire in 1874. The Chicago Historical Society built a fireproof building on the site of its pre-1871 building at 632 North Dearborn Street. The replacement building opened in 1896 and, after housing the collection for thirty-six years, was used for several purposes and remained vacant for periods until being transformed into a nightclub in 1985. This impressively massive Richardsonian Romanesque building is currently the home of the Excalibur nightclub. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.


1896-1932 home of the Chicago Historical Society
In 1920, the Society purchased the large history collection of Charles F. Gunther with the intention of changing its focus from only a research institution into a public museum. Many of the items in Gunther's collection, in addition to Chicago, were related to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. These include Lincoln's deathbed and several furniture pieces from the room where he died in Petersen House and clothing he and wife Mary Todd Lincoln allegedly wore the evening of his assassination.

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 After 36 years in the Henry Ives Cobb structure on North Dearborn Street, the museum and library moved to the current structure in Lincoln Park. The current home of the museum was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and constructed in 1932 by the WPA, with the aim of creating an expanded public museum.
The 1932 Federal-style structure has been expanded twice. The first addition, clad in limestone, opened in 1972 and was designed by Alfred Shaw and Associates. The second addition, designed by Holabird and Root, was made in 1988 and included refacing the earlier expansion in red brick to give a unified look to all three portions of the building. Both expansions occurred on the west side of the 1932 structure, leaving intact its original porticoed entrance facing Lincoln Park.[4] The main entrance and reception hall, however, was moved to the new western addition facing Clark street. The 1988 extension, in addition to expanded exhibition galleries, also contains the museum's store and public cafe.

adler planetarium chicago , museum in chicago , usa

adler planetarium chicago

 Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, founded in 1930, is America's first and oldest planetarium. It now houses two star-gazing theaters, a unique collection of antique instruments, extensive exhibit space, and many hands-on exhibits. It also offers one of the most wonderful views of the skyline in the entire city. 

 

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 This lakefront attraction on the Museum Campus features loads of otherworldly exhibits. The Shoot for the Moon exhibit features the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft that astronauts Captain James A. Lovell Jr. and Buzz Aldrin flew in the 1966. The new permanent exhibit Planet Explorers offers hands-on-learning for budding astronomers. Journey to the Stars, an immersive space show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, takes the viewers 13 billion years in the past, when the first stars were born. Open Monday-Friday 10-4pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-4:30pm

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The CyberSpace Gallery is billed as the future of museum experiences. It features computer-based interactive exhibits, stations which provide realistic, immersive experiences of the universe, a CyberClassroom for up to date information on current astronomy, and a Cyberstudio for interactive video conferencing.

video adler planetarium chicago

 

 It is the oldest planetarium in the United States and first opened its doors way back in 1930. Adler Planetarium was founded by Chicago business leader Max Adler and the museum today is home to three full-size theaters, extensive space and science exhibits and one of the world's most important antique astronomical instrument collections on display.

Downtown Chicago from the Adler Planetarium

 

 Located on Northerly Island, it is a part of Chicago's Museum Campus along with the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. For its design, architect Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr. was awarded the gold medal of the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1931.[5] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.