Museum Campus Chicago

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Museum Campus and Aquarium
planetarium

The Museum Campus Chicago is on Lake Michigan situated Park in Chicago , where three of the most important museums in the city are: the Adler Planetarium , the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History . It has an area of ​​23 hectares and is the southeastern part of Grant Park .

history

The Museum Campus was created in 1998 with the aim of making the culturally rich area around the three museums pedestrian-friendly. For this purpose, the Lake Shore Drive freeway along Lake Michigan , which previously divided the area, was diverted and is now west of Soldier Field . Today the campus is characterized by numerous green areas as well as pedestrian paths and jogging routes. Solidarity Drive is particularly picturesque ; part of the path consists of a narrow isthmus . There are also bronze monuments of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus , the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko and the Czech writer Karel Havlíček Borovský along the way .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://chicago-outdoor-sculptures.blogspot.com/2007/06/monuments-on-solidarity-drive.html

Coordinates: 41 ° 51 '59.4 "  N , 87 ° 36' 50.8"  W.