Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
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The Museum of Science and Industry is located in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, adjacent to Hyde Park. It is housed in the only surviving building from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, the former Fine Arts Building.
During the early years of the twentieth century, the Fine Arts Building was refurbished for museum use by Julius Rosenwald, who insisted his name not appear on the building. In 1933, when Chicago was hosting the Century of Progress, the Museum of Science and Industry opened to the public.
Many of the museum exhibits are interactive, ranging from the Hall of Communications which explains telephony to the coal mine, which re-creates a mine inside the museum. The museum houses the U-505, the only German submarine captured by the US in World War II, silent film actress Colleen Moore's dollhouse and the Transportation Zone which includes exhibits on air and land transportation. The first diesel-powered streamlined stainless-steel trainset, Pioneer Zephyr, is on permanent display.
The Henry Crown Space Center at the Museum of Science and Industry includes the Apollo 8 capsule which took Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders on the first lunar orbital mission. Other exhibits include an OmniMax theater, Scott Carpenter's Mercury Atlas 7 capsule, a Lunar Module trainer and a life-size mockup of a space shuttle.
In addition to its three floors of standing exhibits, the Museum of Science and Industry also hosts temporary and traveling exhibits. In 2000, it created and hosted the largest display of relics from the wreck of Titanic. It currently hosts Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS exhibit, a view into the human body through use of plastinated human specimens.
See also
- Science Museum
- Museum
- MOSI - the Museum Of Science and Industry in Tampa
External link
Museum web site (http://www.msichicago.org/)