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A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing. A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house. Often, labels are ...
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.
Visible storage in the porcelain galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum. Motorcycle stack display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.. Visible storage is a method of maximising public access to museum and art collections that would otherwise be hidden from public view.
English: A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sent to space; a box containing the tumor that killed Ulysses S. Grant, sectioned; a hand-cranked surgical saw used for cutting through bone in amputations, etc; a gilded skull, the first item in the museum's catalogue—original owner unknown.
The house is now operated by the Peoria Historical Society as the John C. Flanagan House Museum, a 19th-century period historic house museum. [10] The house also serves as the headquarters for the Peoria Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. [5] Exhibits include antique glass, china, furniture, toys, quilts, tools, and clothing ...
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]
Exterior of the William and Florence Schmidt Art Center. Spanning 6500 square feet, the William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, located on the Belleville campus of Southwestern Illinois College, facilitates visual literacy through exhibitions of art and cultural artifacts while igniting inspiration, imparting knowledge, and fostering connections between the college and the local community.
The Glidden House as it looked around 1900. The land that the Glidden House stands on is what remains of Joseph Glidden's once large DeKalb County farm. His holdings stretched along Lincoln Highway, both the north and south sides, from the Kishwaukee River in the east to present-day Annie Glidden Road on the west.