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ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, General

Being a non-profit, woman artist-run cooperative, ARC continues its feminist tradition by providing exhibition opportunities for professional and emerging artists working in all media based on excellence of artwork, without discrimination toward gender, race, age, class, physical/mental ability, sexual, spiritual or political orientation.

Chicago Baseball Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Culture, History, Specialized

The Chicago Baseball Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that will collect, preserve, document, research, and interpret artifacts and events that are associated with the legacy, evolution and contemporary life of Chicago baseball.

Our goal is to compliment the various baseball museums and institutions around the country, including Cooperstown, the Negro League Baseball Museum, and the virtual All-American Girls Professional Baseball League museum. We feel our unique Chicago perspective will only serve to compliment the landscape of baseball in America.

 

Our dream for the Chicago Baseball Museum is to emulate the scope and integrity of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library in Springfield, IL.

Clarke House Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, General, History, Historic House

Built in 1836 for Henry B. Clarke, the Clarke House Museum is Chicago’s oldest house. The house shows what life was like for a middle-class family in Chicago during the city’s formative years before the Civil War. Its fascinating history began at a time when family members could see the campfires of Native Americans in the distance.

Illinois Arts Alliance
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Children's, Culture, General, Library

Arts Alliance Illinois works to ensure every child receives a well-rounded education that includes the arts. Learn about our arts education initiatives and resources and check out the latest arts education news on our website and social media pages.

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, History, Library, University

The Museum interprets and displays the University’s medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque collection, known as the Martin D’Arcy Collection, other museum permanent collections, and rotating exhibitions.

Museum of Broadcast Communications
Chicago, Illinois

Culture, History

Museum of Modern Art Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, General, History

Please go to the museum website for detailed information.

Polish Museum of America
Chicago, Illinois

Culture, History

Smart Museum of Art at the The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, University

As the art museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art is home to thought-provoking special exhibitions and a permanent collection that spans five thousand years of artistic creation.

Swedish American Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Children's, Culture

In 1976, in a one-room storefront log cabin, a small group of Swedes dared to dream about establishing a center of Swedish culture in America. Today’s Swedish American Museum is a bustling center of Swedish art, history, culture, and educational activities and programs. Each year, more than 43,000 visitors enjoy special exhibits, Swedish language classes, crafts, genealogy classes, concerts, lectures, films, and the interactive Brunk Children’s Museum of Immigration.
Special programs and classes for fall 2008 include: the Museum’s quarterly rotating temporary exhibit Johnson-Morrison: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Textile Art (Sept. 26 – Nov. 30), Treasures from the Trunk: Highlights from our Immigration History (Sept. 5), Scandinavian Day Festival (Sept.

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Children's, Culture, History

Chinese-American Museum of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Anthropology, Art, Culture, History

The museum is an educational and research center for people who want to know about the history of Americans of Chinese descents in the Midwest. Through exhibitions, lectures, and other public programs, the museum addresses issues common to all immigrants by using the Chinese experience as examples.

DuSable Museum of African-American Hist
Chicago, Illinois

Art, Culture, History

The DuSable Museum of African American History is dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Africans and Americans of African descent. For 42 years the museum has carried out its mission through exhibitions, archives and a diverse array of education programs designed to interpret and illuminate the African American experience for audiences of all ages. DuSable Museum has nine continuing exhibits and works on display, and presents four to six special exhibitions each year along with over 100 public and education programs including film screenings, theatre performances, concerts, literary events, lectures, and special events.

Irish American Heritage Center
Chicago, Illinois

Culture

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Culture

Museum of Masonic History -- Closed
Chicago, Illinois

Culture

National Hellenic Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Archaeology, Art, Culture, History, Library

The National Hellenic Museum is the second oldest American institution dedicated to displaying and celebrating the cultural contributions of Greeks and Greek-Americans.

Rogers Park / West Ridge Historical Society
Chicago, Illinois

Culture, History, Historical Society, Park

The Rogers Park and West Ridge community areas of the City of Chicago are among the most diverse in the country by any yardstick. The history is wide and extremely varied. We are the curators of this history for present and future generations.

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Chicago, Illinois

Culture, General, Library, University

Spertus is Chicago's Jewish education and cultural center. It offers an innovative array of public programming, including exhibits, performances, films, and lectures some presented by the esteemed faculty who teach for its graduate programs. The institute collects, preserves, and displays materials from the Jewish experience in a stunning, contemporary building with fabulous views of Grant Park and Lake Michigan. Art from the institute's collection is showcased throughout the building and temporary exhibits examine aspects of Jewish culture. The building also includes a 400-seat theater and a gift shop that carries art, books, music, videos, and contemporary and traditional Jewish ceremonial gifts. Allow 1 hour.

The Oriental Institute Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Archaeology, Art, Culture, History, Library, University

The Institute helped launch the first era of exploration of humankind's remote past in the Near East, the cradle of civilization. Today its collection is of the most significant repositories of excavated art objects and artifacts from major archaeological sites in all of the Near East.

MUSEUM CONFERENCES

West Virginia Association of Museums 2024 Conference

June 6 - 8, 2024

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Ohio Museums Association 2024 Conference with AMM

July 24 - August 3, 2024

Columbus, Ohio

South Carolina Federation of Museums 2024 Conference

September 16 - 18, 2024

Laurens, South Carolina

Museums Alaska: 2024 Conference

September 25 - 28, 2024

Fairbanks, Alaska

Florida Association of Museums 2024 Annual Conference & Exposition

October 13 - 16, 2024

Daytona Beach, Florida

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