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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]
American Police Center & Museum, Chicago [74] Americana Hollywood Museum, Metropolis [75] ArtWorks Children's Museum, Ingleside; Barb City Motorcycle Museum, DeKalb, collection sold in 2013 [76] [77] Berwyn Route 66 Museum; Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum, Woodstock, closed in 2008, collection now online [78]
The National Hellenic Museum has recently undergone a modernization program that cumulated in the museum moving to its current building in December 2011. [1] The official opening of the NHM took place on December 10th, 2011 and proved to be a marked event within the Greek community of Chicago. [2] [3]
Greek mythology explains our desire to find love this way: Humans originally had four arms and legs and a head with two faces. Fearing them, Zeus split them in two, and people spend their lives ...
After several court cases, the vessel was returned to Gillon, being towed to Chicago in 1980 for use as a museum ship on Navy Pier. In December 1983, Milwaukee Clipper was listed on the National Register of Historic Places , [ 1 ] and in May 1989 the ship was designated a National Historic Landmark .
On September 26, 2015, the closing ceremonies of the second annual Great Chicago Fire Festival were held on Northerly Island after the festival was moved from its original location on the Chicago Riverfront in 2014. [16] This event is put on by Redmoon Theater in conjunction with the City of Chicago and Chicago Park District and is meant to ...
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Lèbes gamikòs by Asteas, c. 340 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Spain. The lèbes gamikòs or "nuptial lebes" (pl.: lèbetes gamikòi) is a form of ancient Greek pottery used in marriage ceremonies (literally, it means marriage vase). [1] [2] It was probably used in the ritual sprinkling of the bride with water before the wedding. In ...