Are you scrambling for something fun to do this long weekend? If Memorial Day means more to you than a parade or brat on the grill in a relative’s […]
Free Museums
View Millions of Dollars at the Free Fed Money Museum
Come to the free Chicago Fed Money Museum and view millions of dollars in various denominations and learn to detect counterfeits. Spend some time here and see how the Federal Reserve System impacts your life. Located at 230 South LaSalle Street, the Bank’s Money Museum is free and open to the public year-round from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Bank holidays.
Art Institute’s Free Admission Week for Modern Wing opening
A week of free admission to the NEW MODERN WING at the Art Institute of Chicago kicks off Saturday. Check it out before admission prices are raised next week. The museum’s addition houses its 20th- and 21st-century art collections, including sculpture and contemporary art. May 16 and May 17, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free, with a non-perishable donation for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. 111 S. Michigan Ave., (312) 443-3600, www.artic.edu.
MCA: Free Admission on Second Saturdays – May 9
Every second Saturday the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago invites families to learn about the art of our time through hands-on art activities, scavenger hunts, Look ‘n’ Learn stations, and more. Admission is FREE For families with children 12 and under.
Activities are appropriate for all ages.
Children’s Museum Has Free Admission on Thursdays/Sundays
The Chicago Children’s Museum offers free admission on Thursday nights from 5-8 pm and on the First Sunday of each month.
Free Admission on Thursdays at Notebaert Nature Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, offers free admission every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.! One thousand butterflies of every color are there to greet you, as are informative exhibits, programs, discussions, and field trips that let you experience (rather than just read about) man’s connections to nature.
Museum Free Days Offer Discount on Harry Potter Exhibition
Today marks the opening at the Museum of Science and Industry of “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” which will make its home here until late September, 2009. The ticketed exhibition […]
Free Blacksmithing Demonstration
Bring your family to the Kline Creek Farm and see a blacksmith show how people used to use a hammer and anvil to repair metal tools. Kline Creek klinecreekfarm1Farm is a drop-in time machine, a restored farmstead where demonstrators in period costumes show how a DuPage County farm worked in the 1890s.
Free Tours Each Weds at Glessner House
The Glessner House Museum, voted one of the top ten historical houses in America by CNNMoney, is now offering free tours each Wednesday. Allow yourself to travel back into a historically rich period of Chicago history by visiting the beautiful museum built in 1887 by the famous architect, Henry Hobson Richardson.
Check out the FREE Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
Lions, tigers, and bears, not to mention klipspringers and pygmy hippos, boast one of the city’s best residential addresses, at the Lincoln Park Zoo in the heart of lakeside […]
Free Mondays: Chicago Historical Museum
The Chicago History Museum –This is a privately endowed museum focusing on the rich history of the city. It’s $14 to visit, but every Monday it’s FREE! This month, […]
Art Institute: Thank God for Free Days
The Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners approved a monster hike in admission fees to the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday, resulting in a 50 percent increase in adult admission fees and a 70 percent increase in student and senior citizen fees. Visitors can also enjoy free admission from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. every Thursday during Target Free Thursday Evenings. There are many such free visiting opportunities:
* One late evening per week (Thursdays after 5:00 p.m.) throughout the year
* Two late evenings per week (Thursdays and Fridays after 5:00 p.m.) during the summer (May 31 to August 31)
* The entire month of February
* The week of the opening of the Modern Wing, from May 16 to May 22, 2009
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