Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, Hyde Park in the neighborhood adjacent to Lake Michigan. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from 1893 World's Fair. Originally from Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, it is only opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition doped. It is also the largest science museum in the western hemisphere.
Among his diverse and extensive exhibits, the museum offers a working coal mine, a German U-boat (U-505) during the Second World War, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model, the first diesel powered streamlined powered conquered stainless-steel passenger train ( Pioneer Zephyr) and a space probe of NASA used on the Apollo 8 mission.
Based on 2006 attendance, the Museum of Science and Industry was the fourth largest cultural attraction in Chicago. He climbed to second place, 2007 is based participation.
David R. Mosena president and CEO of the museum since 1998


History
 
The Palace of Fine Arts (also known as the Fine Arts Building) at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was designed by Charles B. Atwood. Unlike the other "White City" building was constructed with a brick substructure under its plaster facade. After the world exhibition, which it first Columbian Museum, housed in the the Field Museum of Natural History developed. If a new building opened near Field Museum of Chicago in 1920, moved the museum organization and the former site remained vacant.
Art Institute of Chicago professor Lorado Taft led a public campaign to restore the building and in another kind of museum, one devoted to sculpture. The South Park Commissioners (now part of the Chicago Park District) won approval in a referendum to sell $ 5,000,000 in bonds to apply for restoration costs in the hope of the building into a sculpture museum, a technical trade, schools, and other things. But after a few years the building has been selected as the site for a new Science Museum.
At this time, the Commercial Club of Chicago was interested in creating a science museum in Chicago. Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald's Club members by pledging to $ 3,000,000 to the cost of conversion of the Palace of Fine Arts (Rosenwald was finally paying more than $ 5,000,000 for the project attracted). During his transformation into the MSI, the exterior of the building has been poured into new limestone, retaining its 1893 Beaux Arts look, while the interior was replaced with a new designed Art Moderne style by Alfred P. Shaw.
Rosenwald established organization of the museum in 1926 and insisted that his name not appear on the building, but for the early years of the museum, it was known as the Rosenwald Industrial Museum. In 1928, the name of the museum at the Museum of Science and Industry changed. Rosenwald's vision was an interactive museum in the style of the Deutsches Museum in Munich / Germany, a museum in 1911, he visited when he was on vacation with his family in Germany to create.The Museum's Christmas Around the World Exhibition
The museum conducted a nationwide search for his first director to be found. In the end, MSI Board of Directors elected because he Waldemar Kaempffert Julius Rosenwald shared vision. Kaempffert was the science editor for The New York Times. He assembled the museum's first curatorial staff and began to organize and build the exhibits. For the planning and preparation of the museum, Kaempffert and his staff visited the German Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in Kensington, and the Technical Museum in Vienna, all of which served as models for the MSI. Kaempffert was also instrumental in the development closely with the science departments of the University of Chicago, a lot comes from the scholarship for the exhibits. Kaempffert occurred in early 1931 amid growing disputes with the second President of the Board of its objectivity and neutrality of the exhibits and his management staff.
The new Museum of Science and Industry to the public in three stages between 1933 and 1940. The first opening took place during the Century of Progress Exposition. Two of the museum's president, a number of curators and other staff members, and exhibits came from the MSI Century of Progress event.
For years, visitors to the museum through its original main entrance. However, it proved too small to handle a large number of people. The new main entrance is a structure from the main museum building, through which visitors descend into an underground room then up again into the main building, dissolved in a similar way as the Louvre pyramid. 

Exhibits 

Foucault pendulumA United 727
The museum displays more than 2,000 exhibits in 75 large halls. The museum has several major permanent exhibition. The mine re-created a working deep shaft coal mine in Central Pavilion inside the museum with the original equipment from Old Ben # 17 circa 1933rd Since 1954, the museum has the U-505 submarine, one of only two German U-boats in World War II had captured, and the only one caught now on display in the Western Hemisphere. In 2004, the museum has a hole opened in the front garden in front of the East Pavilion, which would later underground McCormick Tribune Foundation will exhibit hall, the U-505 behind the East Pavilion and sank the U-505 inside, opening of the new U -505 Experience on 5 June 2005. Take Flight donated creates a San Francisco to Chicago flight with a real Boeing 727 jet aircraft from United Airlines. Silent film star Colleen Moore and stock market investor's Fairy Castle is on display as The Great Train Story, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model that the history of transportation from Seattle to Chicago explains. The zone includes Transportation to provide air and land transport, including the Empire State Express 999 steam locomotive, the first car ever exceed 100 miles an hour. The Transportation Zone also features two fighters of the Second World War by the British Government donated a Ju 87 R-2/Trop. Stuka Divebomb - one of only two intact Stukas left in the world - and a Supermarine Spitfire. The first diesel-streamlined stainless steel train, the Pioneer Zephyr is renamed on permanent display at the Great Hall, the entrance hall in 2008, and a free tour goes through it every 10-20 minutes. Several U.S. Navy war ship models on display. There is a flight simulator for the new F-35 Lightning II
In keeping with Rosenwald vision, many of the exhibits are interactive, from Genetics: Decoding Life, which sees the genetics on human and animal development, a toy maker 3000, a working assembly line that visitors can watch a toy top and, how it is done. There is also an interactive Fab Lab MSI, which intends an interactive laboratory where members build "can do everything" is.
In March 2010 the Science Museum opened in the Storms Allstate court. This multi-level exhibit features a 40-foot water tornado, tsunami-tank, Tesla coil, heliostat system and of an authentic Wimshurst machine Wimshurst James in the late 1800s. All artifacts can explore the guests the physics and chemistry of the natural world around them.
 
MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, the Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders was on the first lunar orbital mission. Other exhibits include an Omnimax theater, Scott Carpenter's Mercury Atlas 7 spaceship, a Lunar Module trainer and a life-size dummy of a space shuttle.
The museum is unique and quirky permanent exhibits, as is known, a walk-through model of the human heart, which was removed in 2008 for the construction of YOU! Experience the [4], the eighth Opened in October 2009 and replaced with a 13-meter-high interactive 3D heart [5]. Also known body slices [two corpses are on display in 1/2-inch-thick (13 mm) discs currently on display] - in part - in you! The experience. You! Experience the functions and Gunther von Hagen's plastinated.
Due to its age and design, the museum building itself is a museum piece.
Other exhibits include Yesterday's Main Street, a mock-up of a road from Chicago to the early 1900s complete with a paved road, old-fashioned lights, fire hydrants, and several shops, including the precursors to several Chicago-based company. Included are:

    * Dr. John B. Murphy 's office
    * Berghoff's Restaurant
    * Jewel Tea Company grocery
    * Registry
    * Lytton's Clothing Store
    * Commonwealth Edison
    * Gossard Corset Shop
    * Chas. A. Stevens & Co. (now the bankruptcy)
    * Chicago Post Office
    * Walgreen's Drug Company
    * The Nickelodeon Cinema
    * Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and Photo Studio
Unlike the other stores, both can Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and The Nickelodeon Cinema can be entered and are functional businesses. Finnigan's serves a variety of flavors and varieties of ice cream and The Nickelodeon Cinema plays short silent films throughout the day. Another important aspect to Yesterday's Main Street is the air that is blown through the exhibition to create the feeling of a cool autumn evening.
In 1993, the F-104 Starfighter on loan to MSI by the U.S. Air Force since 1978, at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas has been sent.
In March 1995, the Santa Fe steam locomotive 2903, the museum was moved from outside to the Illinois Railway Museum.
The museum houses the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame.


Exhibitions
 
In addition to the three floors of permanent exhibitions, the Museum of Science & Industry also hosts temporary and traveling exhibitions. Exhibitions are different from the exhibits, because for five months or less and usually require a separate admission fee last paid. [Edit] Exhibitions in the MSI have included Titanic: The Exhibition, [8], the largest collection of relics from the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 2000, Gunther von Hagens' BODY, a look inside the human body by using samples plastinated human, in 2005, and Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius [9] in the summer of 2006. Past exhibitions include CSI: The Experience, robots as we are, [10] City of the Future, [11] Canstruction and Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, Experience and the glass. Harry Potter: The Exhibition opened on 30 April 2009, and left the Museum on 29 September 2009. opened the third installment of the Smart Home: Green Wired March 2010 and will run until January 2011.