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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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The downtown Chicago skyline seen across Grant Park from the steps of the Field Museum

Planning a museum dayChicago Museum Day: Museum Campus vs Hyde Park vs the Art InstituteSpend the day on the Museum Campus - the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium share one lakefront peninsula off Roosevelt Rd at the south end of Grant Park - when you have kids and want three big draws a few hundred yards apart, and you accept timed-entry tickets, three separate adult admissions (about $30 at the Field, from roughly $39 at the Shedd, from $25 at the Adler), and combo-pass math (a Chicago CityPASS runs $144 for adults and $114 for children 3 to 11 for five attractions - the Shedd and Skydeck plus three of six others). Two of the three museums is a fuller day than three. Head south to Hyde Park - the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($25.95 adult) at 57th St and Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House ($24 guided tour) on Woodlawn Ave - when hands-on science or Prairie-style architecture is the point and you will make the roughly 20-minute Metra Electric ride from Millennium Station ($4.25 one-way), or the roughly 25-minute CTA #6 Jackson Park Express down DuSable Lake Shore Dr ($2.50), a real leg of the day. Or give the whole day to the Art Institute of Chicago ($32 adult, $27 for Illinois residents) at 111 S Michigan Ave, across from Millennium Park and a block from the Loop 'L' - the easiest limited-time and winter choice, one museum with no ride south and no walks between buildings. Match the plan to who you are traveling with and how much of the day you are willing to spend moving between buildings.

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1The LoopThe civic downtown core: Millennium Park and Cloud Gate, the Art Institute, the Cultural Center, and Grant Park.2Mag MileMichigan Avenue shopping, the Water Tower and 360 Chicago, the MCA, and Navy Pier on the lakefront.3RiverwalkThe riverfront and skyline: Willis Tower Skydeck, the Architecture Center, and the river cruises.4River NorthGalleries, nightlife, and dining north of the river — the Merchandise Mart, Frontera Grill, and steakhouses.5West LoopRestaurant Row and Fulton Market dining, Union Station, and the city's hottest food-and-nightlife strip.6Lincoln ParkThe free zoo and conservatory, the lakefront and North Avenue Beach, Old Town comedy, and family north side.7WrigleyvilleWrigley Field and Cubs game days, the Southport Corridor, and Lakeview's bars and music venues.8Wicker ParkThe Damen-Milwaukee-North six-corners: shopping, tacos, breweries, music, and nightlife.9Logan SquareNorthwest-side dining, cocktail bars, and boulevards around the Logan Square monument and Blue Line.10Chinatown / PilsenChinatown's Wentworth Avenue and Ping Tom Park, plus Pilsen's murals, museums, and music halls.11Hyde ParkThe lakefront Museum Campus and, to the south, Hyde Park's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and Robie House.

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CategoryExperiences5 checked places: Adler Planetarium, Field Museum, Frederick C. Robie House

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PlanetariumAdler PlanetariumAmerica'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 museumField MuseumA major 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 museumFrederick C. Robie HouseFrank 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 museumGriffin Museum of Science and IndustryThe 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.AquariumShedd AquariumA 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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