Museums - A Photo Thread

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Museum: Salem Witch Museum
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
Architect: Minard Lafever
Completed: 1846 (as East Church), 1972 (as museum)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

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Museum: Key West Museum of Art and History
Location: Key West, Florida
Architect: ? (original building), Bert Bender (restoration)
Completed: 1891 (as Custom House), 1999 (as museum)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

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Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (original building), Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (renovation and annex addition)
Completed: 1959 (original building), 1992 (renovation and annex addition)













All photos taken by geomorph in 2007.

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Museum: Museum of Jewish Heritage
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Roche-Dinkeloo
Completed: 1997



Photo taken by geomorph in 2007.

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Museum: Arvin Gottleib Planetarium
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Architect: ?
Completed: 1999, 2017 (renovation)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

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Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - Downtown
Location: San Diego, California
Architect: ? (Joan and Irwin Jacobs Building), Gluckman Mayner Architects (David C. Copley Building)
Completed: 1916 (Joan and Irwin Jacobs Building originally the baggage building of Santa Fe Railroad Station), 2007 (both buildings as museum)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2014.

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Museum: August Wilson African American Center
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Architect: Perkins+Will
Completed: 2009





All photos taken by geomorph in 2012.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by geomorph

Museum: Salem Witch Museum
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
Architect: Minard Lafever
Completed: 1846 (as East Church), 1972 (as museum)

Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

Coincidentally recently ranked #2 in a recent list of the world's top tourist traps!

https://www.usatoday.com/money/bluep...-in-the-world/

[geomorph]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Coincidentally recently ranked #2 in a recent list of the world's top tourist traps!

https://www.usatoday.com/money/bluep...-in-the-world/

That is a fun article! When I visited Salem years ago I must have heard that the museum was not worthwhile since I did not enter.

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Museum: Driehaus Museum
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Burling and Whitehouse
Completed: 1883 (as Nickerson Mansion), 2008 (as museum)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Frommann & Jebson
Completed: 1896 (as Humboldt Park Stables), 2014 (as museum)

























All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Mayers Murray & Phillip
Completed: 1930

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: D. H. Burnham and Company (original building), ? (Harold Washington Wing)
Completed: 1915 (as South Park Administration Building in Washington Park), 1973 (as museum), 1993 (Harold Washington Wing)



















All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

[whatnext]

Nice. What was the original use of the DuSable building?

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Nice. What was the original use of the DuSable building?

It was an administration building for the park, but I saw a few online references that it was also a 'police lockup'!

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Museum: Chicago History Museum
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (original building), Alfred Shaw and Associates (addition), Holabird and Root (addition)
Completed: 1932 (original building), 1972 (addition), 1988 (addition)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Chicago Cultural Center
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
Completed: 1897 (as Chicago Central Library and Grand Army of the Republic meeting hall and memorial), 1977 (as museum with rotating gallery exhibitions)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Field Museum of Natural History - building and Evolving Planet exhibit halls
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: D.H. Burnham and Company
Completed: 1921

For previous coverage of this museum, see post #27 of this thread.

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Field Museum of Natural History - various animal exhibit halls, including Nature Walk, Messages from the Wilderness, Mammals of Asia, and Tsavo Lions
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: D.H. Burnham and Company
Completed: 1921

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Field Museum of Natural History - various cultural exhibit halls, including Regenstein Halls of the Pacific, The Ancient Americas, Northwest Coast & Arctic Peoples, Native Truths, and DNA Discovery Center
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: D.H. Burnham and Company
Completed: 1921

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.