Brainsnack Tours: Links--Chicago's Art and History


Links: Chicago's Art & History
Chicago's plethora of cultural institutions ensures that any visitor will have the opportunity to visit or just happen upon a famous building, public art piece, or museum. Here are links to some of our favorites. Note: Most links open new windows. Museums & Other Cultural Institutions The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Gallery Adler Planetarium Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Children's Museum Chicago Cultural Center Chicago History Museum Clarke House Museum David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago DuSable Museum of African American History Field Museum of Natural History Glessner House Museum Goethe Institut Chicago / Chicago German Cultural Center Historic Pullman Foundation International Museum of Surgical Science Irish American Heritage Center Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Japanese Cultural Center Jazz Institute of Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo Museum of Contemporary Photography Museum of Science and Industry Museum of Contemporary Art National Hellenic Museum National Museum of Mexican Art National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum Oriental Institute Museum Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows Spertus \| A Center for Jewish Learning and Culture Ukrainian National Museum Architectural Terms Tired of not knowing what all those architectural terms mean? Visit About.com's architecture glossary; or the Illustrated Architecture Dictionary that uses examples from Buffalo, NY, buildings. 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago Chicago History Museum's World's Columbian Exposition site Tom Kinter's Website offers a digitized version of C. Graham's 1893 Lithographs Paul V. Galvin Library Digital Digital History Collection at the Illinois Institute of Technology offers a digital look at four books of the Fair. Julie K. Rose offers a Website "The World's Columbian Exhibition: Ideas, Experience, Aftermath." Century of Progress: Chicago World's Fair of 1933-34 Chicago History Museum's Century of Progress site The National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States presents a site about the GM Exhibit at the 1933 Fair University of Chicago Library Digital Activities and Collections has a large site dedicated to the Century of Progress, with more than 350 pamphlets and other materials available. Read a Book! Our annotated bibliography of more than 50 books about Chicago is available for your pleasure and perusal! Take Home Some Art Aside from offerings at the many museum stores available in the institutions above, you can take home some art from your Chicago trip at these special locations: ArtoMat Website Created in 1997, Artomat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There used to be an ArtoMat machine in downtown Chicago: first floor, north side of the Chicago Cultural Center, but according to the Artomat site, the closest one is now at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL, or Kishwaukee College outside of Dekalb, IL. Gallery 37 Center for the Arts The Gallery 37 arts jobs training program was started in 1991, on a former empty city block labeled block number 37 (visit Wikipedia for more recent developments about Block 37, aka 108 N. State Street.) From the Gallery 37 Website: "Learning and creating alongside Chicago’s top arts professionals, who serve as teaching artists, Chicago teens learn valuable life lessons while earning a wage and polishing their creative skills. Gallery 37 hosts programs throughout Chicago and has been replicated throughout the US and abroad." The Gallery 37 store, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., 66 East Randolph Street, offers a wide range of paintings, sculptures, textile scarves, woodcarvings, jewelry, ceramics, and painted furniture. All proceeds from the sale of items in the store go directly back to funding the programs offered by Gallery 37. Page last updated: 23 September 2012.

Links: Chicago's Art & History