Jody Robbins <h1>The Chicago Museum Campus<br /></h1><p>The pretty, lakefront Chicago Museum Campus mixes 57 acres of greenery with three celebrated Chicago museums: The Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and Field Museum. Founded in 1998, the area is accessible and ideal for folks looking to brush up on history at some of the finest museums in Chicago, or simply to enjoy an afternoon by the lake.</p><h3><strong>The Adler Planetarium</strong></h3><h3><img style="padding: 5px" src="/guideimages/0000/0215/adler_main_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Adler" width="100" height="100" align="right" /></h3><p>Situated at a prime point along the vaunted lakeshore of the Chicago Museum Campus, the <strong><a href="/directories/show/905-">Adler Planetarium</a></strong> sits on what was once known as Northerly Island. </p><p>Like the land link that eventually connected it to the mainland, the planetarium has directed visitors' eyes toward the heavens since the visionary Max Adler opened the Chicago museum and planetarium in 1930.  </p><p><a href="/host_cities/1-Chicago/guides/127">Guide to The Adler Planetarium </a></p><h3><strong>The John G. Shedd Aquarium</strong></h3><h3><img style="padding: 5px" src="/guideimages/0000/0217/shedd_main_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Shedd" width="100" height="100" align="right" /></h3><p>When the <strong><a href="/directories/720-shedd-aquarium">Shedd Aquarium</a></strong> joined the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum in 1930, it was the newest of the Chicago museums to be built in Grant Park, in what is now known as the Chicago Museum Campus. </p><p>As with many Chicago museums and all of Chicago's great building projects, it was the citizenry (led by John G. Shedd, a retired president of <a href="/directories/494-macy-s-formerly-marshall-field-s">Macy's on State Street</a>) that rallied around what was billed as the world's largest aquarium. Today, the Shedd houses nearly 22,000 aquatic animals, and more than two million people per year take it all in--without even getting wet.</p><p><a href="/host_cities/1-Chicago/guides/125">Guide to The John G. Shedd Aquarium </a></p><h3><strong>The Field Museum</strong></h3><p><img style="padding: 5px" src="/guideimages/0000/0219/field_museum_main_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Field Museum" width="100" height="100" align="right" />Take the voluminous sciences of anthropology, botany, geology, paleontology, and zoology, and give them and their practitioners one of the finest Chicago museums where they can gather the fruits of their careers, and you have<strong> <a href="/directories/1102-field-museum">The Field Museum</a></strong>. </p><p>Biological, geological and cultural objects are collected at this final stop of the Chicago museum campus. The collection at this, the anthropological and historical cousin of the Chicago museums, boasts an inventory of more than 20 million items! </p><p><a href="/host_cities/1-Chicago/guides/138">Guide to The Field Museum </a></p><h3><strong>Chicago Trolley & Double Decker Bus Co. Stop</strong></h3><p><strong><a href="/directories/1063-chicago-trolley-and-double-decker-bus-co">Chicago Trolley Stops Here!</a> </strong>The green triangle line goes to Chicago Museum Campus stopping after the CTA Orange/Green. Red line Roosevelt Rd. stop. </p> 2007-06-21T14:41:00+00:00 <p><img style="padding: 5px" src="/guideimages/0000/0213/Museum-Campus.jpg" border="0" alt="Museum Campus" width="227" height="150" align="left" />Light-polluted, inland cities such as Chicago don't generally lend themselves to star-gazing and dolphin-spotting. Nature-lovers head to rural hills or beachside towns for such thrills. </p><p>But with just a day at the Chicago Museum Campus, visitors can check out Orion's belt, sit in on a dolphin show, and study dinosaur fossils--with just a pleasant, lakeside stroll between each of the Chicago museums housed here. </p> true

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