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Adler Planetarium
Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago facing Lake Michigan in Grant Park. It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History. It is adjacent to Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and ...
Type. Planetarium. The Cernan Earth and Space Center is a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in the Chicago suburb of River Grove. It is named for astronaut Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), who flew aboard the Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions and, as commander of Apollo 17, was the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the Moon.
Its gravity is extremely powerful — not as strong as a black hole, according to Chicago's Adler Planetarium, but roughly 100,000 to 300,000 times the gravity on Earth.
Field Museum of Natural History
Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium at the Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta. Mark Smith Planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon. Omnisphere Theater, Coca-Cola Challenger Space Science Center, Columbus State University, Columbus. Rollins Planetarium at Young Harris College, Young Harris.
Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture is a functional bowstring equatorial sundial created in 1980 measuring approximately 13 feet (4.0 m). [2][3] The sundial was formerly located ...
DuSable Museum of African American History. Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Irish American Heritage Center. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. National Hellenic Museum. National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.