The museum free days are part of the Smithsonian's Museum Day Live! and require an online registration at www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/ticket/ . Once registering, visitors will receive an emailed ticket to print and then present at a number of Illinois museums for the free admittance.
More than a dozen Chicago museums are participating, and many more in the suburbs. Click here to find a participating museum near your home and get details about Museum Day Live!
- Participating Chicago museums include:
- Swedish American Museum, 5211 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640
- Intuit The Center of Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
- International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive
- Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N. Michigan Ave
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave
- National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted Street
- Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, 100 W. Randolph
- Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive
- National Veterans Art Museum, 1801 S. Indiana Avenue
- Glessner House Museum, 1800 S. Prairie Avenue
- Clarke House Museum, 1827 S. Indiana Avenue
- DuSable Museum of African American History
- Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
- Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
