Museums in Chicago strive to keep admissions accessibleWhen the Adler Planetarium recently proposed a $2 hike in admission, the blowback caused officials to reconsider the plan and scale it back.It's a timely example of how sensitive Chicago-area...
If you want to make a weekend of it and discover a selection of museums in the area, then the American Museum of Natural History, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) tied in second place, with 90,500 monthly searches each. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Chicago’s Art...
The view of Dunnington Cliff, located southeast of Derby, is significant as it was the site of King’s Mills, Britain’s largest water-powered manufacturing area in the mid-18th century and home to numerous mills associated with a variety of manufacturers, including flint grinding for the ceram...
(The Art Institute of Chicago)111 S Michigan Ave (btwn Monroe St & Jackson Dr), 芝加哥, IL Art Museum· Grant Park · 685 tips and reviews 171. Detroit Institute of Arts 9.4 5200 Woodward Ave (btwn E Kirby & Farnsworth), 底特律, MI Art Museum· Wayne State · 162 tips and reviews ...
Beyond the eastern seaboard, institutions sprouted with American expansionism. The Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, the oldest in the USA, was established in 1859 to encompass its ancestral home, the original estate of Henry Shaw,botanist, and philanthropist. The Field Museum in Chicago founde...
PERTH & AREA MUSEUMS Perth Museum Experience 19th. century Perth at the Matheson House, home of the Perth Museum. The museum features a full calendar of changing exhibitions in the main gallery while the third floor gallery tells the story of Perth's colourful past, featuring the pistols from...
It is quite compact compared to other museums so you will be able to take it all in. The collections are stunning, especially the tapestries, but every area has interesting and historical architectural details, furniture, fixtures, artwork. The building itself is very atmospheric and features ...
Chicago Athenaeum The Chicago Athenaeum is an International Museum of Architecture and Design, appropriately based in the world's first city of modern architecture and design - Chicago. Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, in...
The Albuquerque Museum, originally known as the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, is located in the Old Town area of the New Mexico city, and presents the art and history of the Southwest, and the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico. The collections include over 400 years of art ...
All these processes were to take place in parallel; no area of the organisation could be considered dominant and yet one context remained the most important: the visitors. It was the visitors who provided meaning to the daily work of the museums and it was they who always had to prioritised...