Museum Campus

The Museum Campus Chicago is a neighborhood on Lake Michigan Park in Chicago, where three of the most important museums of the city are: the Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. It has an area of 23 hectares and is the southeastern part of Grant Park.

History

The Museum Campus was created in 1998 with the aim of the culturally rich area to frame the three museums pedestrian friendly. For this purpose, the Lake Shore Drive highway along the Lake Michigan, which has previously divided the area diverted and now lies to the west of Soldier Field. The campus is characterized today by its numerous green areas and pedestrian paths and jogging trails. A particularly picturesque applies the Solidarity Drive; a part of the path is made of a narrow isthmus. Also located along the path bronze monuments of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko and the Czech writer Karel Havlicek Borovský.