Four Great Chicago Museums You Can Walk To
The Art Institute is about 10 minutes away on foot, and the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium wait at the end of a lakefront walk.
Stay at the Congress and you can walk to four of Chicago’s best-known museums. Spend the morning with the Impressionists, have lunch at Rafael’s, and see the dinosaurs after.
The Art Institute of Chicago
About a 10-minute walk, at Michigan Avenue and Adams. One of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, founded in 1879, with famous Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections. Look for the bronze lions on the front steps.
The Field Museum
About a 20-minute walk, on the Museum Campus. Natural history on a grand scale: dinosaur fossils, ancient Egypt, and millions of specimens in a classical hall on the lakefront.
Shedd Aquarium
About a 25-minute walk, on the Museum Campus. Thousands of animals from around the world, next door to the Field Museum at the edge of Lake Michigan.
Adler Planetarium
About a 30-minute walk, on Northerly Island. America’s first planetarium, at the tip of the Museum Campus peninsula, with one of the best skyline views in the city.
