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This is a day by day listing of the free museums of Chicago that I mostly copied from another website whose author generously offered that anyone could copy. You may want to confirm the free day with the museum before you go. Some of these "museums" are much more interesting than others and some should hardly be called a museum. |
| Sunday |
Terra Museum of American Art
666 North
Michigan Avenue
312-664-3939
First Sunday of each month and every Tuesday
free.
Vietnam War Museum
954 West Carmen
Avenue
773-728-6111
Free Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
| Monday |
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
6500 S.
Pulaski
312-582-6500
Mondays free.
Chicago Historical
Society
Clark at North Avenue
312-642-4600
Mondays
free.
Adler
Planetarium
1300 South Lake Shore
Drive
312-922-7827
Tuesdays free.
Art
Institute of Chicago
Michigan and
Adams
312-443-3600
Tuesdays free.
Museum of Contemporary
Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
312-280-2660
First Tuesday
of each month free.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (formerly known as the Academy of Science -- re-opened at its new location) ($6; sometimes extra fee for special exhibitions)
Terra Museum of American Art
666 North
Michigan Avenue
312-664-3939
Tuesdays and the first Sunday of each month
free.
Field Museum of Natural
History
Roosevelt at Lake Shore
Drive
312-922-9410
Wednesdays free.
Peace Museum
314 West Institute
Place
312-440-1860
Wednesdays Free.
Clark House and Glessner House museum? Check with the Chicago Architecture foundation. The Glessner house is one of the most fascinating archetectural tours in the city.
| Thursday |
Chicago
Children's Museum
Navy Pier, 600 East Grand
Avenue
312-527-1000
Thursdays 5-8pm free.
DuSable
Museum of African American History
740 East 56th
Place
773-947-0600
Thursdays free???? Sundays???
Museum of Science and
Industry
57th and Lake Shore
Drive
773-684-1414
Thursdays free.
Shedd
Aquarium
1200 South Lake Shore
Drive
312-939-2439
Thursdays free for Aquarium only.
Spertus
Museum
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
618 South
Michigan Avenue
312-322-1747
Fridays free.
Vietnam War Museum
954 West Carmen
Avenue
773-728-6111
Free Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
| Everyday |
Chicago Botanic Garden ($7/car charge for parking)
Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Conservatory
Garfield Park Conservatory - Located a few blocks north of where Oak Park Mennonite Church meets. A beautiful tropical greenhouse which is especially nice in the winter.
American Bar Association Museum of
Law
American Bar Association
750 N. Lake Shore
Drive
312-988-5000
Free.
Arts Club of Chicago
201 East
Ontario
312-787-3997
Free.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of
Art
Northwestern University
1967 South Campus Drive,
Evanston
847-491-4000
Free.
Chicago Architecture
Foundation
224 South Michigan
Avenue
312-922-3432
Free.
Chicago Cultural
Center
78 East Washington
312-346-3278
Free.
Jane Addams' Hull-House
Museum
800 S. Halsted
312-413-5353
Free.
International Museum of
Surgical Science
1524 North Lake Shore
Drive
312-642-6502
Free.
Intuit: The Center for
Outsider and Intuitive Art
756 North Milwaukee
Avenue
312-243-9088
Free.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
1852 West 19th
Street
312-738-1503
Free.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Chicago
Cultural Center
78 East Washington
312-629-6000
Free.
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia
College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
312-663-5554
Free.
National Vietnam Veterans
Art Museum
1801 South Indiana
Avenue
773-326-0270
Free.
Newberry
Library
60 West Walton
312-943-9090
Free.
Oriental Institute
Museum
1155 East 58th Street
312-702-9521
Free.
Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
University of
Chicago
Cobb Hall, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th
floor
773-702-8670
Free.
Smart Museum of
Art
University of Chicago
5550 South Greenwood
Avenue
773-702-0200
Free.
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South
State Street
312-747-4876
Free.