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9 EXPLORING FAR SOUTH
Park
MAP D5 • Open dawn– A10 Valois
11pm (approx) • DA
Frederick Law
Olmsted and Calvert Smart BUS
Vaux, the designers Museum of Art
of New York’s Central
Park, also created House Medici on 57th
Robie
this 371-acre green
space in the early Oriental Museum of
University
Lorado Taft’s 1870s. It originally of Chicago Institute Science and
Industry
sculpture, attracted mainly
Washington wealthy city dwellers MORNING
Park but today, it is a
widely used park with Start your day with a true South
recreational programs, the DuSable Side classic, the cafeteria Valois
Museum of African American (see p105), which draws everyone
History, and Lorado Taft’s 110-ft from local pensioners to former
President Obama. From there,
(34-m) long sculpture, Fountain of walk about a mile (1.6 km) south
Time, which took him 14 years to or hop on the no. 28 bus at the
build. It is unwise to venture into corner of Hyde Park Boulevard
the park after dark. and Lake Park Avenue to visit the
Museum of Science and Industry
University of Chicago
0 (see pp20–21), where you can
easily spend an engrossing few
Sculptures
Over the years, the University of hours exploring the hands-on
exhibits. For lunch, skip the
Chicago has acquired around 12 museum food and head west
outdoor sculptures, including Wolf about a mile (1.6 km) to Medici on
Vostell’s playful 1970 Concrete Traffic, 57th (see p105), a great student
a car embedded in concrete at the and faculty hangout, known for its
southwest end of Midway Plaisance, delicious pizzas. The extravagant
and Nuclear Energy, a bronze by Henry Garbage Pizza is a favorite.
Moore that resembles a mushroom AFTERNOON
cloud. Within a reflecting pool at
60th Street and University Avenue is Stroll about four blocks southwest
Construction in Space in the Third and to the Oriental Institute at the
Fourth Dimension, an abstract piece University of Chicago (see p101)
created in the 1950s by Constructivist whose museum will transport
you back to ancient times. Its Suq
Antoine Pevsner, which depicts the gift shop offers unique souvenirs,
space-time continuum. such as a replica of an ancient
board game. Just east of the
institute is Frank Lloyd Wright’s
masterpiece of Prairie-style
architecture, Robie House. Take
a tour of this to really gain some
insight into the great man’s
vision. Then stroll around the
university’s leafy quadrangles if
it’s good weather, or backtrack a
little to the Smart Museum of Art
(see p50) if you’d rather be inside.
Either way, round off your day with
a culinary trip to the French-
Italian border at A10 (see p105).
Decorative bridges cross the lagoon, Osaka Japanese Gardens
See map on p100

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