Inside Grant Park, a Chicago centerpiece, sits the Museum Campus, ready to welcome visitors for winter adventure, fun and learning at three of the city’s notable museums: Adler Planetarium, Field Museum of Natural History and Shedd Aquarium.
The Field Museum, which opened in 1921, hosts about 1.3 million people annually. This major hub for research, educational and cultural programming as well as conservation work employs about 150 scientists in its labs.
Immerse yourself under the sea at Shedd Aquarium, which opened in 1930 as one of the world’s first inland aquariums with saltwater fishes. Today, more than 1,000 animal species from around the globe call the aquarium home, and Shedd offers educational, cultural and animal-led programming emphasizing their conservation and field research efforts.
Also dating to 1930, Adler Planetarium opened as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. The space science center includes two dome theaters, the landmark museum and observatory complex, and the world’s leading collections documenting the history of astronomical science.
Alongside the museums, the 57-acre campus on the southeastern end of the park features neoclassical sculptures of Kosciuszko, Havlicek and Copernicus, surrounding visitors with art as they walk between the museums.
To learn more, visit chicagoparkdistrict.com.
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