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This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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]
Admission is free for MCA members, members of the military and all youth, 18 and under. It currently provides free admission to Illinois residents every Tuesday. [81] During the summers, the museum provides free outdoor Tuesday Jazz concerts. [82] In addition to art exhibits, the museum offers dance, theater, music, and multidisciplinary arts.
The National Museum of Mexican Art ... Illinois. The museum was founded in 1982 by Carlos Tortolero and opened on March 27, 1987. ... Admission to the museum is free. [3]
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
The military member does not have to be in attendance personally for their family to participate in the program, but the family must bring one of the accepted forms of ID for free admission. The ...
In June 2008, its endowment was $827 million. As of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody's, its fifth-highest grade, in part reflecting the museum's pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-best. In October 2012, the Art Institute sold about $100 million of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore-up ...
It has long been a perk that kids 12 and younger receive free admission to the Milwaukee Art Museum. And now, thanks to an anonymous donor, an endowment has been set up to provide that free kids ...