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.
The largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere ($25.95 adult), in the last surviving 1893 World's Fair building, with the U-505 submarine, a walk-in coal mine, and the Henry Crown Space Center - enough to fill a full day indoors.
Families and science fans who want one enormous hands-on museum worth the ride south.
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is most useful when you want a place that belongs clearly in the Chicago sequence instead of an undifferentiated listing.
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Families and science fans who want one enormous hands-on museum worth the ride south.
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Hyde Park single-building science day
The largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere ($25.95 adult), in the last surviving 1893 World's Fair building, with the U-505 submarine, a walk-in coal mine, and the Henry Crown Space Center - enough to fill a full day indoors.
Best for: Families and science fans who want one enormous hands-on museum worth the ride south.
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