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beaten since birth, or look
inside the human body in a
detailed exhibit on anatomy.
Genetics: Decoding Life
explores the ethical, biological,
and social issues of this field
of research.
A few exhibits fall outside the
museum’s defined focus but
prove to be enduring crowd-
pleasers, such as a toy factory
staffed by robots, and the five-
The Museum of Science and Industry as seen from across Columbia Basin story, wraparound Omnimax
theater. Colleen Moore’s
e Museum of manned spacecraft to circle Fairy Castle is an exquisite
Science & Industry the moon, in 1968, a replica of dollhouse with at least 2,000
NASA’s Apollo Lunar Module miniature furnishings.
Map B5. 57th St & S Lake Shore Dr. Trainer, and a 6.5-oz (185-gm)
Tel (773) 684-1414, (800) 468-6674. piece of moon rock. A 20-minute
q Garfield, then eastbound bus 55. r University of
@ 1, 6, 10. £ 55th-56th-57th St, movie simulates the experience
of blasting off in a space shuttle, Chicago
59th St. Open 9:30am–4pm Mon–Sat.
Closed Dec 25. & 7 8 0 - = complete with shaking seats, Map A5. Bounded by 56th & 59th Sts,
h Films. ∑ msichicago.org allowing viewers to feel like Ellis & Woodlawn Aves. q Garfield
astronauts, if only briefly. (green line), then bus 55. £ 59th.
The Museum of Science and The transportation section
Industry celebrates scientific features outstanding examples The University of Chicago
and technological accomplish- of transport from train and was founded in 1890 with
ments, with an emphasis on plane to automobile. In All the endowment of John D.
achievements of the 20th and Aboard the Silver Streak, Rockefeller, on land donated
21st centuries. With its collection visitors can climb aboard a by Marshall Field (see p391).
of over 800 exhibits and 35,000 record-breaking 1930s train that Today, this outstanding private
artifacts, the museum makes the revolutionized industrial design. university has one of the
explo ration of science and tech- Take Flight explores the inner greatest number of Nobel
nology an accesssible experience. workings of a 727 jetliner, laureates among faculty, alumni,
Though best known for its cantilevered to the museum’s and researchers of any US uni-
exhibits on space exploration, balcony, and simulates a versity. It is particularly lauded
biology, and transportation, this 7-minute San Francisco-to- in the fields of economics,
largest science museum in the Chicago flight. chemistry, and physics.
Western Hemisphere has more Visitors can walk through a Henry Ives Cobb designed 18
than enough to keep visitors of 16-ft- (5-m-) tall replica of the of the university’s limestone
all ages engaged for a full day. human heart, seeing it from buildings and developed its
The Henry Crown Space the perspective of a blood cloistered quadrangle plan
Center features the Apollo 8 cell, and calculate the number (along the lines of Cambridge
Command Module, the first of times their heart has and Oxford), before the
From Plaster to Stone
Originally built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1893 World’s Fair, this
structure later became the first home of the Field Museum of Natural
History. Based on Classical Revival style, this plaster-clad building was
designed by Charles B. Atwood. After the Field Museum moved out,
the building sat in a state of disrepair until the mid-1920s, when Julius
Rosenwald, chairman of Sears Roebuck and Co., campaigned to save it,
launching a million-dollar
reconstruction program.
Exterior plaster was
replaced with 28,000 tons
of limestone and marble
in an 11-year renovation.
The Museum of Science
and Industry opened in
1933, in time for the
The original building during the 1893 World’s Century of Progress
Columbian Exposition World’s Exposition. The Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University
of Chicago
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