Museums

A 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus fossil, known as “Apex”, will be on display at the American Museum of Natural History starting Dec. 8.

The National Toy Hall of Fame announced its new inductees on Tuesday, which included My Little Pony, Phase 10 and Transformers.

The Chicago History Museum explores clothing’s reflection in cultural values with an exhibition of 70 rarely seen items from the museum’s costume collection. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

The city where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were conceived has largely been overlooked during the crime-fighting quartet’s meteoric rise. But a new museum exhibit hopes to change that.

The museum-wide escape games will be held on September 12th through the 15th.

The starting price for this sliver of history had been less than $100 when Moore saw it, hidden among what Goodwill categorizes as “historical documents.”

From Shedd Aquarium to the Chicago Botanic Garden, here are a few of the city’s most frequented attractions offering free admission on select days this summer.

Some of Chicago’s most iconic museums are offering free days to Illinois residents and beyond for the month of May.

Looking for something to do this month in Chicago?

As spring break for some Illinois schools continue, a popular Chicago museum said it would be closed Wednesday for “unplanned museum maintenance.”

Here’s a look at Chicago museums offering free admission days through April.

Here are some Chicago museums with free days in April.

Looking for something to do during spring break in Chicago?

Hitting the Chicago museum circuit over spring break? Here’s where you can get in for free.

On Feb. 19, 1942, following the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry.

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library announced Wednesday it is closing its downtown location and moving to an archives center in Wisconsin later this year.

A new program in the suburbs is trying to reduce anti-Jewish hate as antisemitism is up nearly 400% in the U.S. just since last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, NBC Chicago’s Patrick Fazio reports.

One of the world’s most famous museums has a problem: Some of its treasures are missing and it needs the public’s help to find them.

Dozens of free days are coming up at Chicago museums this fall. Here’s a full list of all the free days at museums across Chicago for September.

If you’ve been thinking about buying tickets to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the much-anticipated “Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape,” it’s now or never.