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Best museums in Chicago
Family-friendly museums in Chicago: hands-on science, art, history, and children's museums, plus their upcoming free days and family programs. Browse 30 family-friendly spots and 25 upcoming events on FamHop.
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Upcoming museums
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago · Free
- Poetry Pop-up: Poetic Mechanics · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, August 19, 2026
- Poetry Pop-up: Menagerie of Poetry · Thursday, August 20, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Meet a Scientist: fan-Tusk-tic Dicynodonts · Friday, August 21, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Harris Learning Collection Educator Giveaway · Saturday, August 22, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- PlayLab PlayDate: Tully Monster Celebration with Paul Mayer · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago · Free
- Field Favorites in ASL · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: The Human Story Begins · Thursday, August 27, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum · Saturday, August 29, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- PlayLab PlayDate: A is for Artist! Song Makers with Karim Nagi · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago · Free
- Virtual Professional Development: Planning Purposeful Focused Field Trips · Thursday, September 3, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, September 4, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Sunday, September 6, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Monday, September 7, 2026
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, September 9, 2026
- Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum · Saturday, September 12, 2026
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
- Meet a Scientist: Diversity of Amphibians · Friday, September 18, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Dozin' with the Dinos · Friday, September 18, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- Educator Open House · Thursday, September 24, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Sigamos Adelante: Community and Career Fair · Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
Top-rated museums
- Chicago Board of Trade Building Museum · Chicago
- Money Museum · Chicago
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- Pritzker Military Museum & Library · Chicago
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- The Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago
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- Chicago Architecture Center · Chicago
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- Field Museum · Chicago
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- Museum of Ice Cream · Chicago
- Chicago History Museum · Chicago
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- International Museum of Surgical Science · Chicago
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- National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago
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- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art · Chicago
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- Ukrainian National Museum · Chicago
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- Chicago Maritime Museum · Chicago
- The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum · Chicago
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- National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture · Chicago
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- Busy Beaver Button Museum · Chicago
- DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center · Chicago
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- Fire Museum of Greater Chicago · Chicago
- Griffin Museum of Science and Industry · Chicago
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- Obama Presidential Center Museum · Chicago
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- Stony Island Arts Bank · Chicago
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- Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture · Chicago
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- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum · Oak Park
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- 16 Inch Softball Hall of Fame Museum · Forest Park
- Hal Tyrrell Trailside Museum of Natural History · River Forest
- Riverside Historical Museum · Riverside
- Bronzeville Children's Museum · Chicago
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- Vanderpoel Art Museum · Chicago
- Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum · Evanston
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- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center · Skokie
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