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- Location:
- Chicago, IL, 60614
- Phone:
- 312-642-4600
- Mon - Sat:
- 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 Chicago History Museum Blog
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Bertha Gets a New Gown
20 Nov 2009, 1:44 pm |
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Abraham Lincoln as “The Railsplitter”
18 Nov 2009, 7:46 am |
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The New, New Maxwell Street Market
12 Nov 2009, 2:40 pm |
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Celebrating Lincoln Park History
5 Nov 2009, 10:56 am |
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FashioNext Inspiration Wedding Gowns
3 Nov 2009, 11:52 am |
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Chicago History Museum Curator Tim Long urges you to make a trip to the Museum to see the Bertha Honoré Palmer exhibition. If you’ve already seen the show, you’ll want to make a return trip for the recently installed court presentation gown. But the only place you’ll see the gown’s detachable nine-foot-long train is on the Museum blog.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
Court presentation gown with detachable train, 1892Silk satin, silk velvet, rhinestone, gold cloth, glass beads, netCharles Frederick Worth, Paris
Chicago History Museum Curator Libby Mahoney explains the origin and symbolism of one of the most successful images in the history of American politics--Abraham Lincoln as “The Railsplitter.”
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected sixteenth president of the United States. He won as “The Railsplitter” candidate, a nickname acquired the previous May when Illinois Republicans convened at Decatur to endorse a favorite son for president.
Chicago History Museum Curator Peter Alter introduces a new series of blog posts, "People and Places," featuring the research and writing of DePaul University students. Looking at the past and present of Maxwell Street Market, authors Joseph Battaglia and Sharon Weber ask where do you look for bargains in Chicago?
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
This fall a group of DePaul University students are taking a course at the Chicago History Museum, learning about working in museums. As a class project, they have spread throughout the city to explore Chicago’s people and history. ...
Chicago History Museum This Thursday come to the museum to hear historian and Benito Juárez scholar Silvestre Villegas Revueltas as he discusses the relationship between the United States and Mexico during the years of Mexican Reform and the American Civil War. Cost: $10.
Source: chicagohistory.org
Lincoln Diversified looks at Lincoln’s relationships with diverse communities through the lens of slavery, Native American displacement, and foreign relations with Mexico.
Chicago History Museum Cody, Nick, and Travis, three teens from the Swinomish Indian Tribe, wanted to make a gangster movie or a rap video. Instead, two large oil refineries on tribal land caught their attention. Come to the museum Sunday to see “March Point” and follow the youths' quest for answers.
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Project Sunday is a monthly documentary film series. Screenings are free with museum admission.
Chicago History Museum Curator Jill Grannan invites you to the museum tonight to celebrate Lincoln Park history with tours, performance, and community joie de vivre.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
Any day is a good day to celebrate Lincoln Park history, block by block. As a matter of fact, you can start at the museum, in an exhibition conveniently titled Lincoln Park Block By Block! This has been ...
Chicago History Museum See the newly revealed garments selected to inspire this year's FashioNext designers.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
The new FashioNext inspiration pieces have been unveiled. This year the designers will choose from six wedding dresses selected from the museum’s collection. The garments range from an 1874 Victorian gown in green to a 1972 Marc Bohan for Christian Dior mini-dress. ...
Chicago History Museum Curator Libby Mahoney unravels the history and significance of a special flag on view in Abraham Lincoln Transformed. Visit the museum to see this and many other important artifacts related to America’s 16th president.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
This U.S. flag, on view in Abraham Lincoln Transformed, has a unique history. Union army soldiers, in a gesture of deep sorrow and great respect, reportedly wrapped Lincoln’s body in this flag before placing it in a temporary pine coffin for transport from the Petersen House to the White House. ...
Chicago History Museum Thursday our Lincoln Diversified series begins with The Fiery Trial. Columbia University’s Eric Foner will examine the evolution of Lincoln’s attitudes toward the institution of slavery.
Source: chicagohistory.org
Lincoln Diversified looks at Lincoln’s relationships with diverse communities through the lens of slavery, Native American displacement, and foreign relations with Mexico.
Chicago History Museum John Russick recalls how one band changed his feelings about country music. How has Chicago’s music scene influenced your musical tastes?
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
In the summer of 1996, I was studying architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Late one night, another student put on a bootleg cassette tape of extraordinary music. The band was the Old 97’s, ...
Chicago History Museum Curator Jill Grannan looks at how Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum was influenced by his time in Chicago. This weekend the museum celebrates Oz-tober, marking the 70th anniversary of the film's release.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
I have never read L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. Isn’t that terrible? The illustrations by W.W. Dinslow I have always loved from a distance. Perhaps I lost interest in the reading when my first-grade class production never got off the ground. ...
Chicago History Museum Libby Mahoney, Chief Curator at the Chicago History Museum, gives a brief overview of the exhibition Abraham Lincoln Transformed.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
Libby Mahoney, Chief Curator at the Chicago History Museum, gives a brief overview of the exhibition Abraham Lincoln Transformed.
Chicago History Museum Cesáreo Moreno of the National Museum of Mexican Art and Co-Curator of Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico discusses the exhibition.
Source: blog.chicagohistory.org
Cesáreo Moreno of the National Museum of Mexican Art and Co-Curator of Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico discusses the exhibition, on display through April 12, 2010.
Chicago History Museum Are you a Wizard of Oz fan? Learn more about the book's author and his Chicago influences from our Oz-tober tours and lecture. October 22-25
Source: chicagohistory.org
Oz-tober celebrates the 70th anniversary of the 1939 film release of The Wizard of Oz with a bus tour, walking tour, screening, and a lecture and booksigning by Evan Schwartz, author of Finding Oz.
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