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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 33 upcoming events on FamHop.
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Upcoming museums
- Stories in Motion: Early Childhood, Identity, Movement, and Making · Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Talk Story: Pacific and Filipino Voices in the Museum · Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago · Free
- PlayLab PlayDate: Storytime with Jim Louderman and Rosie the Tarantula · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago · Free
- Armour Seminar: Rudiger Bieler · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: What Is An Animal Poem? · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Meet a Scientist: Neotropical Bats · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Family Field Nights: Boo with SUE · Friday, October 30, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Saturday, October 31, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- WTTW First Wednesday · Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Threads Tell Stories: How Archaeologists Read Andean Textiles · Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Armour Seminar: Megan Baker · Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Experiential Learning with the Field Museum at the Pullman National Historical Park · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: Poetry is the Thing with Feathers · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Dozin' with the Dinos · Friday, November 6, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Legendary Late Hours · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
- Tlingit Artist James Johnson: Haa Shagoon—The Path Forward · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
- Armour Seminar: Henry Hooghiemstra · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Black Hawk Performance Company · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Exploring Indigenous Ingenuity in Ancient Americas · Saturday, November 14, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Itty Bitty Explorers: T. rex Teeth & Tails · Saturday, November 14, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well · Saturday, November 14, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, November 18, 2026
- Mongolian Fossil Plants · Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Armour Seminar: Pia Viglietti · Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Poetry Pop-up: Poetic Mechanics · Thursday, November 19, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Field Favorites in ASL · Saturday, November 21, 2026
Field Museum, Chicago
- Illinois Free Wednesday · Wednesday, November 25, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Friday, November 27, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Saturday, November 28, 2026
- Legendary Late Hours · Sunday, November 29, 2026
- WTTW First Wednesday · Wednesday, December 2, 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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- 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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