Places to visit in Chicago for the culturally inclined
Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
You won't find work by the cream of America's art schools at Intuit - in fact, that's the point of the place. Dedicated to self-taught and outsider artists, the center has been presenting its skewed but fascinating take ...more
Museum of Contemporary Art
Stunning to some, stunningly ugly to others, the bold, rectilinear concrete blocks of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art are not necessarily to everyone’s taste. What this landmark modernist building unquestionably off...more
Museum of Science and Industry
So interactive it's almost like a theme park, the colossal Museum of Science and Technology in Jackson Park is the largest institution of its kind in the western hemisphere. Among its many exhibits, highlights include a ...more
National Museum of Mexican Art
Small but perfectly formed, this free Pilsen gallery displays a great collection of Mexican art and artefacts from across the ages. While its name is rather grand, the collection itself is modest, as much about pottery a...more
The Art Institute of Chicago
Most cities would kill for an art collection as good as the Art Institute of Chicago. The second largest art museum in the US, it is considered by many aficionados to be unparalleled in the variety of its contents.
The Field Museum
A 40-foot-high Tyrannosaurus named Sue is the star exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, which contains one of the world's best collections of dinosaur skeletons. These prehistoric terrors form just one part of large, eclec...more
Adler Planetarium
The tone of the Adler planetarium's exhibitions is slanted more towards younger visitors, but there's still much to see among the collection of permanent and temporary exhibitions and three projector-equipped theaters, e...more
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