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Hyde Park and Museum Campus
Hyde Park and the Museum Campus cover the University of Chicago, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, the lakefront museums, and South Side museum-day planning, with the longer transit and campus decisions made explicit.
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Image: Chicago skyline from the Museum Campus | Photo by daryl_mitchell on Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0
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Hyde Park and Museum Campus in the Chicago visitor roster
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Chicago visitor lanes
1 The Loop The civic downtown core: Millennium Park and Cloud Gate, the Art Institute, the Cultural Center, and Grant Park. 2 Mag Mile Michigan Avenue shopping, the Water Tower and 360 Chicago, the MCA, and Navy Pier on the lakefront. 3 Riverwalk The riverfront and skyline: Willis Tower Skydeck, the Architecture Center, and the river cruises. 4 River North Galleries, nightlife, and dining north of the river — the Merchandise Mart, Frontera Grill, and steakhouses. 5 West Loop Restaurant Row and Fulton Market dining, Union Station, and the city's hottest food-and-nightlife strip. 6 Lincoln Park The free zoo and conservatory, the lakefront and North Avenue Beach, Old Town comedy, and family north side. 7 Wrigleyville Wrigley Field and Cubs game days, the Southport Corridor, and Lakeview's bars and music venues. 8 Wicker Park The Damen-Milwaukee-North six-corners: shopping, tacos, breweries, music, and nightlife. 9 Logan Square Northwest-side dining, cocktail bars, and boulevards around the Logan Square monument and Blue Line. 10 Chinatown / Pilsen Chinatown's Wentworth Avenue and Ping Tom Park, plus Pilsen's murals, museums, and music halls. 11 Hyde Park The lakefront Museum Campus and, to the south, Hyde Park's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and Robie House.
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Planetarium Adler Planetarium America's first planetarium, on a lakefront point at the tip of the Museum Campus, with immersive sky shows, deep space exhibits, and one of the best skyline views in the city from its front lawn. Natural history museum Field Museum A world-class natural history museum on the lakefront Museum Campus, home to SUE the T. rex — the most complete Tyrannosaurus ever found — and collections spanning more than 40 million objects. Historic house museum Frederick C. Robie House Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 masterpiece of the Prairie style on the University of Chicago campus — a UNESCO World Heritage Site operated for tours by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Science museum Griffin Museum of Science and Industry The largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere, in Hyde Park's last surviving 1893 World's Fair building, with a U-505 German submarine, a walk-in coal mine, and the Henry Crown Space Center. Aquarium Shedd Aquarium A landmark lakefront aquarium on the Museum Campus with more than 32,000 animals, from the Caribbean Reef and Amazon galleries to the Abbott Oceanarium's beluga whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins.
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Renting a car for this area? (optional)
This lane spreads from the lakefront Museum Campus down to Hyde Park — far enough that a car can link the stops more easily than transit.
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The Museum Campus sits on the near-south lakefront, but the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and Robie House are several miles further south in Hyde Park. If you'd rather link them by car than by bus or rideshare, compare live rental prices and pick-up points on Booking.com Cars.
Best for:South-side museum days that combine the lakefront Museum Campus with Hyde Park.
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