Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design : details
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Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and DesignChicago, IL, 60601
312-372-1083
URL : http://www.chi-athenaeum.org
overview : The Chicago Athenaeum is an International Museum of Architecture and Design, appropriately based in the world's first city of modern architecture and design - Chicago. - Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning.
collections : Photographic Archives, drawings, models, building fragments, and decorative arts. - a special emphasis on "Made in Chicago; Made in Illinois" between 1910 to 1960. the Museum also maintains a fine collection of industrial design of American, Asian, and European origin.
topics : architecture, international, sculpture, park, the, chicago, athenaeum, schaumburg
