GLASS EXHIBIT June 26, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Announcements.trackback
If you’ve been knocking around the house looking for something to do and driving your family nuts with your restless pacing, there’s an exhibit about glass at the Museum of Science & Industry that looks really neat. Glass is one of those materials that is both beautiful and useful — and fascinating! To get to the Museum, you can take the CTA #10 Museum of Science & Industry bus, or the #2 Hyde Park Express, the #6 Jackson Park Express, or the #X28 Jackson Park Express. Or you can take the Metra Electric line from the Randolph or Van Buren Street stations downtown. Check here for all the specifics.
After taking in all of the technology at the Museum, you may be looking to commune with nature a bit, so walk around the south side of the Museum to Wooded Isle. It was constructed for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and it, along with the Museum itself, is one of the few remaining “structures” from the Fair. You can read about the Fair in this entry from the online version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago. If you like your history with a side of scandal, add Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City to your summer reading list.
Curious about the whole phenomenon of a World’s Fair? Check out the ExpoMuseum, a website created by passionate fan of World’s Fairs.
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