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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]
List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) are indicated in the last column.
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;
The Rahmi M Koç Museum; U. S. Navy Submarine Force Museum Archived 2008-09-23 at the Wayback Machine; Patterson Museum; WWII U.S. Submarine Memorials and Museums; Museum submarines in the United States; Indonesian Navy Submarine Monument; CB-20 midget submarine page; 1996 North Korean Gangneung submarine infiltration incident museum pictures ...
Skokie Heritage Museum: Skokie: Cook: Chicago area: Historic house: Historic engine house with fire equipment and original 1847 log cabin: Homepage: Slovenian Heritage Museum: Joliet: Will: Chicago area: Ethnic: Operated by the Slovenian Women's Union of America: Homepage: Smart Museum of Art: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Art: Part of the ...
List of museum ships in Illinois; U. German submarine U-505 This page was last edited on 17 September 2010, at 00:51 (UTC). ...
Col. Wood's Museum, as depicted by Louis Kurz in 1866. Col. Wood's Museum (sometimes referred to simply as the Chicago Museum) was a museum and public theatre located in Chicago, Illinois. The museum was founded in 1864, but was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. A second incarnation opened in 1875, but it was also destroyed by fire.
Construction was supervised by Navy Captain Albert R. Ross. Chicago-area architect Jarvis Hunt designed the original 39 buildings and Lt. George A. McKay was the civil engineer for the construction on the 172 acres (70 ha) wilderness location; [7] $3.5 million ($119 million today) was appropriated to finance construction.