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Museums

Cooking up a Storm: MSI's food experiments for kids

  • Jun 11

Exhibit based on 'The Princess and the Frog' at IN children's museum

  • Jun 5

Chat Daddy joins 'Windy City Weekend'

  • Jun 5

IL Passport: Touring Cantigny, Haymarket Martyrs Monument and more

  • Apr 24

Touring IL history ahead of nation's 250th birthday

  • Apr 18

'Under Pressure': An artist's SOS to save the planet

  • Apr 16

Thieves steal paintings worth millions from Italian private museum

  • Mar 30

Louvre Museum director resigns in wake of brazen crown jewel heist

  • Feb 24

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Volo Museum a unique family attraction

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A time-traveling tour of American history in a bucolic corner of NYC

  • Apr 29
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Brooklyn Pop weaves a dreamscape that's a love letter to the borough

  • Apr 9
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Navy Pier children's museum opens exhibit for artist focused on nature

  • Jan 17
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Cruise through car culture history at Petersen Automotive Museum's 'Totally Awesome!' Exhibit

  • Jun 24, 2025
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Amsterdam News, icon of Black-owned publishing, presses forward with a page from its past

  • Jun 2, 2025
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Visit the Volo Museum

  • May 16, 2025
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Urban Stomp exhibit shows history of New York City through dance

  • May 9, 2025

Latest Stories

Part of Underground Railroad found in closet of New York City museum

The Underground Railroad was a secret pathway to freedom for enslaved people escaping north, through woods, tunnels, private homes, under floorboards, inside churches and even hidden beneath wagons.

  • Feb 15
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Mangled and bent, the Louvre heist's surviving treasure is undergoing 'complete restoration'

When thieves broke into the Louvre and cut through display cases, they seized a trove of Napoleonic jewels. But in their escape, the crown of Empress Eugénie slipped from their grasp and was left battered on the pavement below.

  • Feb 6

Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier opens 'I AM WILD: A Charley Harper Exhibit'

The Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier celebrated the opening of its new Charley Harper exhibit, focused on celebrating his renowned art with a focus on interactivity for kids.

  • Jan 17

Shedd Aquarium announces free admission days for Illinois residents

The Shedd Aquarium is rolling out free admission days for people who live in Illinois throughout this month and February.

  • Jan 17
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Louvre hikes ticket prices for most non-EU tourists | What to know

Under the new structure, visitors who are neither citizens nor residents of the EU will pay the higher rate, the Louvre said.

  • Jan 14