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Historic brass astrolabes on display in The Universe In Your Hands at the Adler Planetarium

Adler PlanetariumMuseum Campus / Northerly Island

The Universe In Your Hands

Now showingPermanent collection$25

100 hand-held and table-top instruments from the Adler's collection, including sundials, astrolabes and armillary spheres, showing how people used the sky to keep time.

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On nowAll of November 2026

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

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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

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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

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