Art Galleries
Brauer Museum of Art
Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN, 46383
Tel: +1 219-464-5365
Located in the state-of-art Center for the Arts on the Valparaiso University campus, the Brauer Museum of Art is home to a nationally recognized collection of 19 th- and 20 th - century American art and includes works by Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Childe Hassam, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ed Paschke.
It also houses the largest known collection of works by Junius R. Sloan, a Hudson River School painter who lived and worked in the Midwest. Other focus areas within the collection include world religious art and Midwestern regional art. As well as displaying selections from its permanent collection, the Brauer Museum hosts a full schedule of special exhibitions and events.
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Tel: +1 312-280-2660
A huge complex of galleries designed by Berlin-based architect Josef Paul Kleihues, the MCA houses a major collection of contemporary paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos by such modern masters as Jasper Johns, Ed Paschke and Andy Warhol.
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637
Tel: +1 773-702-0200
Discover a permanent collection of over 7000 objects, spanning five centuries of both Western and Eastern civilizations. Located on the University of Chicago’s beautiful Hyde Park campus.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL, 60608
Tel: +1 312-738-1503
Located in the Pilsen neighbourhood, Chicago’s largest Mexican community, the museum specializes in art of all media by Mexican and Mexican-American artists.
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60604
Tel: +1 312-663-5554
Extensive permanent collections and special exhibitions explore photography as an artistic medium.
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
9351 Keeler Ave, Skokie, IL, 60076
Tel: 847-679-4256
A unique facility combining recreational features with an outstanding exhibition of large scale contemporary sculpture.
Terra Museum of American Art
664 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60611
Tel: +1 312-664-3939
The Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60603
Tel: +1 312-443-3600
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, first stood on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. It opened on its present site at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Built on rubble from the 1871 Chicago fire, the museum housed a collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country. Within the next decade, a new complex will continue this process of growth.
