Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry is a science center in Chicago.

Museum building

The Museum of Science and Industry is located in Jackson Park, just south of Downtown Chicago. The museum building was built in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition. It is the only building of the exhibition it was built solid construction, because in art has been shown around the world and therefore the building was subject to increased requirements in terms of fire protection. After the show it was so preserved throughout time and today is the only remaining building of this world exhibition.

After the exhibition it hosted the first Field Museum of Natural History, the 1921 but moved to the city center of Chicago. After several years, the building was renovated with the support of the entrepreneur Julius Rosenwald. The interior was redesigned in Art Deco style. 1933, the Museum of Science and Industry was opened as part of the Century of Progress.

Exhibition

Many exhibitions were designed interactively according to Rose Forest ideas. To date, this concept has been retained: The visitor can eg run through a model of the human heart, learned in the Hall of Communications, the history of the telephone or visit a replica coal mine. Furthermore, the German submarine U 505 can be seen in the museum, the only one in World War II captured by the United States from Germany U- boat, as well as the NYC No. 999, the first locomotive, capable of a speed of 100 miles per hour (mph) = 160 km / h reached.

The Henry Crown Space Center allows a view into the command module of the Apollo 8 mission, showing the replica of a space shuttle.

In temporary exhibitions have included in 2000 salvaged to see pieces of the Titanic. The traveling exhibition Body Worlds by Gunther von Hagens was at the Museum of Science and Industry as a guest. By the end of April 2007 there Body Worlds 2 was issued, which March 14 to September 2 2013 [turn deprecated] Body Worlds of Animals follows.