Museum of Science and Industry Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is located in Chicago , Illinois , United States, in the Hyde Park administrative district near Lake Michigan . The museum is located in the building of the former Palace of Fine Arts of the World Columbian Exhibition of 1893. The money for the opening of the museum was allocated by Julius Rosenwald, president of the Sears, Roebuck and Company large retail chain. The museum was opened in 1933 on the occasion of the Centenary of Progress exhibition.
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Among the exhibits of the museum are a working coal mine , a German U-505 submarine captured during the Second World War, a model of the railway, the first diesel passenger train Pioneer Zephyr, as well as a spaceship participating in the Apollo 8 mission.
If in 2006 this museum occupied the 4th place in terms of the number of visitors among Chicago museums and attractions, [6] then in the next year, in 2007, it rose to the 2nd place in the rating. [7]
Content
- 1 Gallery
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Gallery
Christmas tree in the lobby of the museum
Aviation hall
A fragment of the layout of the city
U-505
Apollo 8 crew compartment
Guided rover
Notes
- ↑ http://www.msichicago.org/fileadmin/pdf/annual_report/MSI_Annual_Report_-_2012.pdf
- ↑ 2014 Chicago museum attendance // Chicago Tribune - Chicago : Tribune Publishing Company , 2015 .-- ISSN 1085-6706
- ↑ 2014 Attendance Summary - Museums in the Park .
- ↑ 1 2 2013 Attendance Summary - Museums in the Park .
- ↑ 2015 Attendance Summary - Museums in the Park .
- ↑ Chicago's Largest Cultural Attractions (Link unavailable) . ChicagoBusiness . Crain Communications, Inc. (2007). Date of treatment August 8, 2007. Archived on September 28, 2007.
- ↑ Crain's List Largest Tourist Attractions (Cultural): Ranked by 2007 attendance, Crain's Chicago Business , Crain Communications Inc. (June 23, 2008), p. 22.
Literature
- Kogan, Herman. A Continuing Marvel: The Story of the Museum of Science and Industry . 1st ed. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1973.
- Pridmore, Jay. Inventive Genius: The History of the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago . Chicago: Museum of Science and Industry, 1996.
- Museum of Science and Industry (Yesterday's Main Street)