Museum · Hyde Park
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Chicago 60637
Huge science museum in the former Palace of Fine Arts of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, at the edge of Jackson Park in Hyde Park. Visitors walk through a captured WWII German submarine, a recreated early-1900s main street and a giant model railroad. Ticketed traveling exhibitions come through every year.
Permanent exhibitions
- U-505, the German submarine captured in 1944
- Henry Crown Space Center, with the Apollo 8 command module
- Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle dollhouse
- The Great Train Story model railroad
- Science Storms: tornado, lightning and tsunami demonstrations
- Yesterday's Main Street
- Pioneer Zephyr streamlined train
- Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze
