Chicago family weekend planner
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 32 upcoming events on FamHop.
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Upcoming museums
- Pinned, Preserved, and Powerful: How Collections Help Us Do Science · Friday, June 26, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · $
- A Day in the Life of a Pathologist: The Science That Shapes Health · Friday, June 26, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- ¡Tocamos! A Mexican & American Picture Book and Artisanal Collaboration · Saturday, June 27, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- PlayLab PlayDate: Mexican Folk Art Storytime with Author Cynthia Weill · Saturday, June 27, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- PlayLab PlayDate: Pride Month & Stonewall Day Storytime and Craft · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- Sueños de una Monarca Documentary Showing · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- Dust from the Cosmos · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: SUE Poetry · Thursday, July 2, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, July 3, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Saturday, July 4, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Sunday, July 5, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- Summer Institute 2026 – Interpreting Prehistoric Worlds: Fossils, Art, and Inquiry · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: Genetic Poetry · Thursday, July 9, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, July 10, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Windows, Mirrors, and Stories: Exploring Filipino Literature to Teach Identity and Culture · Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Field Museum Events, Chicago · Free
- Poetry Pop-up: Dino-poems · Thursday, July 16, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, July 17, 2026
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- Moth Week! The Secret Lives of Moths: Uncovering Hidden Nighttime Stories · Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- Field Favorites in ASL · Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- Engaging Students Through Asian Popular Culture and Inquiry · Thursday, July 23, 2026
- Poetry Pop-up: Poetry is the Thing with Feathers · Thursday, July 23, 2026
- Groundbreaking! (Without Breaking Ground) Archaeological Geophysics at Angel Mounds State Historic Site · Friday, July 24, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, July 24, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Sunday, July 26, 2026
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- Poetry Pop-up: Poetry Lives Here · Thursday, July 30, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, July 31, 2026
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
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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- 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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- Ekdahl House Museum · Western Springs