Place to see: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
What you see...
If you visit the Art Institute of Chicago, you'll see many famous works of art, amongst which you'll also find Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day from 1877.
About this place:
The world-renowned Art Institute of Chicago houses both a museum and school. The museum contains more than 300000 works of art while nearly 3000 students attend the school.
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, first stood on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. It opened on its present site at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Built on rubble from the 1871 Chicago fire, the museum housed a collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country. Within the next decade, a new complex will continue this process of growth.
Postcards about The Art Institute of Chicago:
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5 June 2008
From:
Jessica Feis
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, US
Discovered by Niko Vujevic
on 11 January 2008.
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