Museum · The Loop
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago 60603
One of the largest art museums in the United States, guarded by its two bronze lions on Michigan Avenue across from Millennium Park. Its collection runs from ancient Egypt to the Modern Wing, with famous Impressionist and American paintings. Several special exhibitions run at the same time across the galleries.
Permanent exhibitions
- Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, including Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- American art, including Hopper's Nighthawks and Wood's American Gothic
- Modern and contemporary art in the Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing
- The Thorne Miniature Rooms
- Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
- Arts of Asia: Chinese bronzes and ceramics, Japanese prints and screens
- Arms and armor and European decorative arts
