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The Adler Planetarium in Chicago in 2017.

Free Chicago museum tickets offered for national Museum Day

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

Adler Planetarium and Museum of Contemporary Art are among the Chicago museums offering people free tickets Saturday Sept. 22 as part of Smithsonian magazine’s national Museum Day promotion. Adler and...

Irwin Adam Eydelnant, co-founder and creative director of the wndr museum, at 1130 W. Monroe St., in Chicago, in the museum's Yayoi Kusama's infinity mirror room.

New Instagram-friendly wndr museum delays its opening at the last minute

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

Chicago’s new Instagram-friendly pop-up attraction known as wndr museum began with a calculated mystery: What was this thing that would feature an “Infinity Room” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and...

Peter Sagal, host of "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me," in a photo for his 2013 show "Constitution USA." Members of the live audience for "Wait Wait" have told him they find the show a relief, he says, because it doesn't dwell on politics and President Trump every minute.

Talking to ‘Wait Wait’s’ Peter Sagal (and watching Stephen Colbert): There are limits to comedy in the Trump era

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

If you attended “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me’s!” big outdoor show taping in Millennium Park last week, or heard the result on the radio over the weekend, you probably noticed...

Field Museum taxidermist Carl Akeley invented this movie camera, which became the Hollywood standard for portability. It is on display in the new exhibition, "Mr. Akeley's Movie Camera" at the Field.

Why did a taxidermist invent a movie camera? ‘Mr. Akeley’s Camera’ knows

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

It would be easy to overlook the latest temporary exhibition at the Field Museum. “Mr. Akeley’s Movie Camera” occupies a studio-apartment sized gallery tucked away at the top of a...

Butterflies are free in Elgin: Notebaert Nature Museum tries repopulating a habitat, a paper-clipped leaf at a time

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

It should not count in any way as a bad omen that to get to the site of the butterfly release, the one aiming to repopulate a former habitat with...

Curator Naomi Beckwith at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015.

Naomi Beckwith named new senior curator at MCA

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

Naomi Beckwith, a Chicago native and seven-year veteran of the MCA, is the Chicago museum’s new Manilow Senior Curator. The museum Wednesday announced Beckwith’s promotion, as well as new heads...

The band Durand Jones & the Indications performs an unannounced set, surrounded by classic sculptures, at the Art Institute Thursday.

In a surprise Lollapalooza extra, band plays before the statuary at Art Institute

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra is not an official member of the new-soul band Durand Jones & The Indications. But the circa 1859 marble bust, be-robed and beatific, looked the part...

A detail photo shows the glass brick of the sculpture.

What is that new glowing scuplture in Wicker Park? It’s a nod to the worker cottage

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

During last weekend’s Wicker Park Fest, Lynn Basa sat and watched her artwork in action. She saw people “walking through it like it was a triumphal arch or something, with...

A rendering by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory depicts NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. The spacecraft will be subjected to heat and radiation like no other man-made structure.

Parker Solar Probe, flying to the sun, is named after U. of C.’s own

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

From his windows up high in a Hyde Park retirement home, Eugene Parker can see, fittingly, the great mass of the Museum of Science and Industry and the distinctive rooftops...

A vintage disco roller skate featured in the "Chicago Rink Rats" exhibition at the Elmhurst History Museum on July 24, 2018, in Elmhurst.

Remember the Rainbo? The Hub? ‘Rink Rats’ in Elmhurst celebrates roller skating’s glory days

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

Tom Russo didn’t set out to write the book on the roller skating history of Chicago that turned into a new museum exhibit on the same nostalgia-drenched, organ music-backed topic....

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