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Chicago
Children's Museum – Navy Pier Chicago
Thirteen permanent interactive exhibits, addressing the arts, science and humanities,
along with accompanying programs, provide innovative educational experiences for children
up through the fifth grade.
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DuPage Children's
Museum – Naperville
Contains information about the museum and its programs, and features Aunty Math.
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Kohl
Children's Museum - Wilmette
Children ages 1-8 can touch and explore each and every one of our eight exhibits in
addition to participating in planned daily activities.
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Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design – Chicago
Featuring Landmark Chicago, a permanent exhibition celebrating Chicago's position as the
world capital of historical and contemporary landmarks of modern architecture.
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Chicago
Historical Society – Chicago
Learn about the great Chicago fire and other historical events from the rich multicultural
history of Chicago and Illinois.
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DuPage
Historical Museum – Wheaton
Three floors of exhibits tell the fascinating stories of DuPage County's rich history from
the breaking of prairie sod in the 1830s to the rapid development of the 1990s.
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Downers
Grove Park District Museum
- Downers Grove
The
Downers Grove Park District Museum's mission is to provide
educational and leisure opportunities for the community by
collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting materials
that explain and document the history of Downers Grove, and
its relationship to local, state, regional, and national
history.
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Field Museum of
Natural History – Chicago
Founded in 1893, the Field Museum is one of the world's great natural history museums -
with a world-renowned scientific staff and collections of more than 20 million specimens
and cultural objects.
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Illinois Railway Museum
– Union
Demonstrating the vital role railroads have played in the growth of the Chicago area as
well as the United States.
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Museum of
Broadcast Communications – Chicago
One of only two broadcast museums in America, the MBC examines popular culture and
contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television and radio.
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Naper
Settlement – Naperville
19th century museum village.
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The Old Graue
Mill & Museum –
Hinsdale
Thousands of visitors annually view the basic milling process,
explained by a miller in a white apron, and purchase fresh stoneground cornmeal in
old-fashioned cloth bags. Spinning and weaving demonstrations are held daily, and
special artisans are featured one Sunday of each month.
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Chicago Botanic
Garden – Glencoe
385-acre public garden owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and managed by
the Chicago Horticultural Society.
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Morton Arboretum – Lisle
Museum of woody plants started by Joy Morton in 1922.
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Earnest
Hemingway Museum – Oak Park
Explore displays featuring rare photographs of Hemingway, his childhood diary, letters,
early writings and other memorabilia.
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Frank
Lloyd Wright Home & Studio – Oak Park
Take a tour of where Frank Lloyd Wright started and learn about his works and ideas.
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Chicago Academy of Sciences
- Nature Museum – Chicago
A fun place where children, families, school groups, and adults can explore nature and
science.
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Museum of
Science and Industry – Chicago
The largest science museum in a single building in the Western Hemisphere with over 800
exhibits and over 2,000 interactive units located in over 350,000 square feet of exhibit
space.
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International Museum
of Surgical Science – Chicago
Portrays many of the personalities, failures and breakthroughs that have shaped modern
surgery. Allows you to step back in time to the 1800's to become either a survivor or a
fatality as a result of early American medical care.
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SciTech – Aurora
Hands-on science and technology center.
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