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  2. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Field Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5][6] and its extensive scientific ...

  4. Museum of Art and History of West African Cultures - Wikipedia

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    The museum with its construction and collections has mobilized around five hundred million CFA francs. [2] Part of the museum's West African art exhibits were collected by Reginald Groux. [3] Groux began collecting artifacts from different African cultures since 2009. In 2020, the African Diplomatic Academy showed an interest in the museum.

  5. Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac - Wikipedia

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    The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]; English: Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection ...

  6. French West Africa - Wikipedia

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    French West Africa. French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958.

  7. African art in Western collections - Wikipedia

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    The National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. was founded by Warren M. Robbins in 1964 as a private and relatively small collection. In 1979 the collection, by then about 8,000 objects, was taken over by the Smithsonian Institution and is now housed in a central if underground location on the National Mall.

  8. Chicago Cultural Center - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [3] renovation during 2021–2022 [4] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The meticulous restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.

  9. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [ 1 ] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...