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The National Hellenic Museum is the second oldest American institution dedicated to displaying and celebrating the cultural contributions of Greeks and Greek-Americans. . Formerly known as the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, the National Hellenic Museum is located in Chicago’s Greektown, at the corner of Halsted and Van Buren St
This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.
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 ...
The Chicago Maritime Museum is a maritime society and museum dedicated to the study and memorialization of Chicago's maritime traditions. [1] The museum's webpage asserts that Lake Michigan and the Chicago River were key factors in Chicago's growth toward status as a world-class city, and pays tribute to Congress for granting lake frontage in 1818 to the infant state of Illinois. [2]
Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia: Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum: Y Virginia: Quantico: National Museum of the Marine Corps: Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine: Virginia: Reedville
The TRITON ultra-modern marine research park is the headquarters of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. It is a three-story building situated in Anavyssos and it houses 34 laboratories, 65 offices, a library, a computer centre, a 200 seats auditorium and two small conference rooms with a seating capacity of 30 to 40.
The Aquitania, known legally as the 5000 North Marine Drive Corporation, was built by Ralph C. Harris and Byron H. Jillson in the Classical Revival style. Its developer was George K. Spoor , the co-founder of Essanay Studios and a producer of silent movies during the first two decades of the 20th century.