Museum · Museum Campus
Adler Planetarium
1300 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Chicago 60605
America's first planetarium, on a peninsula at the tip of the Museum Campus with a skyline view across the lake. Galleries of historic telescopes and instruments sit alongside space-exploration exhibits, and dome theaters show films about the sky. The Doane Observatory opens for public stargazing.
Permanent exhibitions
- Mission Moon: America's first steps into space, told through astronaut Jim Lovell's story
- Chicago's Night Sky
- Other Worlds: planets in our solar system and beyond
- The Universe: A Walk Through Space and Time
- Telescopes: Through the Looking Glass
- Stars Aligned: early astronomers and astrology
- Doane Observatory
Coming up
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