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           Niche Museums


               5 miles        immigrants, this tiny museum’s
      ANDERSONVILLE
                              permanent collection of personal
        LAWRENCE AVE          items brought over by early settlers
         UPTOWN               is supplemented by temporary
       IRVING PARK ROAD       exhibitions on Swedish culture.
             19  41           An interactive children’s museum
        BELMONT AVE           brings the immigrant journey to life.
                      Lake
                     Michigan
                                  Hellenic Museum and
                              3
          LINCOLN AVE
                                  Cultural Center
             CLARK  STREET
                              MAP H5  •  333 S. Halsted St.
                LAKE   SHORE   DRIVE
       Chicago River
      BUCKTOWN                •  11am–5pm Tue–Fri (to 8pm Thu),
            NORTH   AVENUE
                              11am–5pm Sat & Sun  •  Adm: $10;
       WESTERN   AVENUE  GRAND       AVENUE  DOWNTOWN  students and seniors $8; members
               DIVISION ST
                     41
               CHICAGO ST
                              and under-3s free  •  www.
                   STREET     Located in the city’s Greektown, this
       WASHINGTON     BLVD    hellenicmuseum.org
                              museum is dedicated to celebrating
                              Hellenic culture and the Greek
       ROOSEVELT ROAD  STATE  immigrant experience in America.
              HALSTED ST  18TH ST
      CERMAK               ROAD  CHINATOWN  National Museum of
                                  Mexican Art
        PILSEN                4
       ARCHER  AVENUE  BRIDGEPORT  Burnham  MAP B5  •  1852 W. 19th St.
                  BRONZEVILLE
                              •  10am–5pm Tue–Sun  •  DA  •  www.
                        Park
           ASHLAND     AVENUE  HALSTED    STREET  DAN  RYAN   EXPRESSWAY   90  AVENUE  LAKE SHORE DRIVE  41  The largest Latino museum in the
                              nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
                              US explores the culture sin fronteras
                              (without boundaries), showing
                              American communities. Pre­
      0 km  2     94  MICHIGAN  KENWOOD  works from Mexican and Mexican­
                              Columbian ceramics, Day of the dead
      0 miles  2              candela bras, and prints by Diego
                              Rivera are high lights of the collection.
         Spertus Museum
     1
         MAP L6  •  610 S. Michigan Ave.
     •  10am–5pm Sun, Mon & Wed (to 6pm
     Thu & 3pm Fri)  •  DA  •  www.spertus.edu
     From cartoons to ancient Torah
     scrolls, this museum offers a lively,
     multifaceted retelling of Jewish his­
     tory and culture. The museum’s Zell
     Holocaust Memorial was the first
     such permanent installation in the US.
         Swedish American
     2                        National Museum of Mexican Art
         Museum
                                  DuSable Museum of
     MAP B3  •  5211 N. Clark St.  •  10am–4pm   5
     Tue–Fri, 11am–4pm Sat & Sun  •  Adm:   African American History
     $4; children, seniors, students $3  •  DA   Named for Jean Baptiste Point du
     •  www.swedishamericanmuseum.org  Sable, Chicago’s first settler (who
     Located in Andersonville, the historic   was of African descent), this
     neighborhood of Scandina vian   enthralling museum chronicles
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