What's on in Chicago

A giant armillary sphere in the Stargazers Hub gallery at the Adler Planetarium

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Adler PlanetariumMuseum Campus / Northerly Island

Stargazers Hub

Now showingPermanent collection$25

A hands-on gallery of astronomy's tools, from orreries and astrolabes to some of the oldest known telescopes, with an observation station of lenses.

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On now All of November 2026

Also at Adler Planetarium

On now nearby

A section of a museum exhibition, with large cut-outs of trees and plants, and specimens in display cases.

After the Age of Dinosaurs

Field Museum

Pokemon Fossil Museum

Pokémon Fossil Museum

Field Museum

Work from the MoCP collection featured in If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground

If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground

Museum of Contemporary Photography

All exhibitions in Chicago this month Coming up in December

Nearby

The white marble Beaux-Arts exterior of Shedd Aquarium on Chicago's Museum Campus

Shedd Aquarium

Children7 min walk

The neoclassical marble exterior of the Field Museum in Chicago, seen from the lakefront Museum Campus

Field Museum

History10 min walk

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, seen from the street

Museum of Contemporary Photography

ArtFree19 min walk

Image credits

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Stargazers HubCourtesy of Adler Planetarium
After the Age of DinosaursField Museum
Pokémon Fossil MuseumPeter Pawinski / Field Museum
If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American GroundCourtesy of Museum of Contemporary Photography
Adler PlanetariumMichael Barera, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Shedd AquariumDiego Delso, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Field MuseumPaul Sableman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Museum of Contemporary PhotographyAjay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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