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Mosaic at the DuSable Museum of African American History
Mary & Leigh Block
the African-American experience. 8
There is a powerful exhibit on Museum of Art
slavery, com plete with shackles, MAP B2 • 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston
while displays cover topics such as • 10am–5pm Tue, 10am–8pm Wed–
African hair art and the Kwanzaa Fri, 10am–5pm Sat & Sun
holiday celebration (see p101). This collection of paintings,
drawings, and sculpture is
Ukrainian
6 housed in a striking glass and
Institute of
limestone building designed by
Modern Art local architect Dirk Lohan.
MAP B4 • 2320 W. Chicago The museum offers
Ave. • noon–4pm Wed–Sun rotating exhibitions, as well
• www.uima-chicago.org as numerous timely lectures
This tiny institute in the colorful and workshops.
Ukrainian Village neighborhood
Oriental Institute
hosts rotating cultural 9
programs, exhibitions, literary In the heart of the
events, film screenings, and University of Chicago campus,
concerts. The permanent this museum showcases
collection includes works Sculpture in the work of University of
by Chicago artists, as well Ukrainian Institute Chicago resear chers. It
as by painters and sculptors of Modern Art houses objects found in
of Ukrainian descent. exca vations in Egypt, Nubia,
Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia,
7 temporary exhibitions (see p102).
International Museum of and ancient Megiddo.There are also
Surgical Science
MAP F4 • 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Jane Addams
• 10am–4pm Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat 0
& Sun • Adm (free Tue): $15; students Hull House
and seniors $10, children (4–13) $7, Nobel Peace Prize-winning social
members and under-3s free • DA reformer Jane Addams offered a
Medicine meets the macabre at this brighter future to Chicago’s immigrant
museum, which displays historic population from these two Victorian
instruments that span 4,000 years of houses. In addition to her original art
surgery. Murals and sculp tures pay and furniture, Hull House stages
tribute to the profession. Stronger temporary exhibits relating to the
stomachs may appreciate the social settlement that brought day
ancient Peru vian skulls showing care, counseling, and education to
evidence of early surgical attempts. the working class (see p97).

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