Chicago offers a variety of world-acclaimed museums from science and communications – to history and the arts. Also see more museums at Explore Chicago. Here are some ten of the best Chicago museums that are certainly worth a visit. Click on a museum name to go to their website.
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Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
57th Street and Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
(773) 684-1414
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
(312) 922-9410
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL
(312)642-4600
The Museum of Broadcast Communications
360 North State Street
Chicago, IL
312-245-8200
Shedd Aquarium
1200 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
(312)939-2438
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
312-443-3600
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312)280-2660
Adler Planetarium
1300 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
312-922-STAR(7827)
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th Street
Chicago, IL
(312)738-1503
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N. Cannon Drive
Chicago, IL
(773)755-5100