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A diver in scuba gear face to face with a carved statue underwater

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Field MuseumMuseum Campus, Near South Side

Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken Cities

Upcoming20 February 2027 – 19 September 2027Ticketed, see website

More than 200 objects raised from ancient Egyptian ports underwater, centred on Isis, Aphrodite, Helen of Troy and queens Cleopatra and Arsinoe II.

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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

Luke Pelletier, An Opportunity to Be in a Room with the Greats, Executed In Earnest (detail), 2022

Self, Made: Fourteen Modern Artists from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Nef-shaped cup, Saint-Porchaire or Paris, mid-1500s (detail)

Saint-Porchaire Ceramics: Rediscovered Treasures of the French Renaissance

Art Institute of Chicago

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

Children4 min walk

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

Museum of Contemporary Photography

ArtFree10 min walk

The Art Deco rotunda of the Adler Planetarium on Chicago's Museum Campus

Adler Planetarium

History10 min walk

The Beaux-Arts facade of the Art Institute of Chicago on Michigan Avenue, floodlit at night, with one of its bronze lions at right

Art Institute of Chicago

Architecture19 min walk

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Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken CitiesPhoto: Jerome Delafosse ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation
If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American GroundCourtesy of Museum of Contemporary Photography
Self, Made: Fourteen Modern Artists from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family CollectionCourtesy of Richard and Ellen Sandor.
Saint-Porchaire Ceramics: Rediscovered Treasures of the French RenaissancePrivate collection. Paul-David Young/Spektra Imaging LLC.
Field MuseumPaul Sableman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Shedd AquariumDiego Delso, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Museum of Contemporary PhotographyAjay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Adler PlanetariumMichael Barera, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Art Institute of ChicagoDiego Delso, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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