Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa, formerly known as the Oriental Institute, is the University of Chicago's interdisciplinary research center for ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Building
- Description: Chicago archaeology museum and research center
- Also known as: “IASC”, “Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa”, “Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia and North Africa”, “Oriental Institute”, “Oriental Institute Museum”, “Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago”, “University of Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa”, and “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Robie House and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house museum on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Church
Photo: MBisanz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rockefeller Chapel is a Gothic Revival chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. A monumental example of Collegiate Gothic architecture, it was meant by university patron John D. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is situated 420 feet southwest of Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures.
Seminary Co-op
Bookstore
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Seminary Cooperative Bookstores, Inc, founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit bookstore with two branches in Chicago. Its flagship, known colloquially as the Seminary Co-op or simply the Sem Co-op, is located at 5751 S.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hyde Park and Woodlawn.
Hyde Park
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Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…
Woodlawn
Suburb
Woodlawn is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, near the shore of Lake Michigan 8.5 miles south of the Loop. It is one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas, bounded by the lake to the east, 60th Street to the north, King…
Washington Park
Suburb
Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre park of the same name, stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd.
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
- Categories: museum and research center
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المعهد الشرقي”
- Basque: “Chicagoko Ekialdeko Institutua”
- Catalan: “Institut Oriental de Chicago”
- Chinese: “芝加哥大学东方研究所”
- Chinese: “芝加哥大學東方學院”
- Chinese: “芝加哥大學東方研究所”
- Chinese: “芝加哥東方學院”
- Chinese: “西亚和北非古代文化研究所”
- Dutch: “Oriental Institute Museum”
- Dutch: “Oriental Institute”
- Dutch: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- French: “Institut oriental de Chicago”
- French: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- Georgian: “ჩიკაგოს აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის ინსტიტუტი”
- German: “Chicago Oriental Institute”
- German: “Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures”
- German: “Oriental Institute of Chicago”
- German: “Orientalisches Institut der Universität Chicago”
- German: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- Hebrew: “המכון האוריינטלי של אוניברסיטת שיקגו”
- Italian: “Istituto orientale dell’Università di Chicago”
- Italian: “Oriental Institute”
- Japanese: “オリエント学研究所 (シカゴ大学)”
- Japanese: “シカゴ大学オリエント研究所”
- Japanese: “シカゴ大学東洋学研究所”
- Japanese: “シカゴ大学東洋研究所”
- Japanese: “シカゴ東洋研究所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- Norwegian: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Institut Orientau de l’Universitat de Chicago”
- Persian: “انستیتو خاورشناسی دانشگاه شیکاگو”
- Persian: “مؤسسه خاورشناسی دانشگاه شیکاگو”
- Persian: “مؤسسه شرق شناسی دانشگاه شیکاگو”
- Persian: “مؤسسه شرقشناسی دانشگاه شیکاگو”
- Persian: “موسسه خاورشناسی دانشگاه شیکاگو”
- Persian: “موسسه شرق شناسی شیکاگو”
- Portuguese: “Instituto Oriental da Universidade de Chicago”
- Portuguese: “Instituto para o Estudo de Culturas Antigas”
- Portuguese: “Museu Oriental da Universidade de Chicago”
- Portuguese: “Oriental Institute”
- Portuguese: “University of Chicago Oriental Institute”
- Russian: “Восточный институт (Чикаго)”
- Russian: “Восточный институт”
- Serbian: “Оријентални институт Универзитета у Чикагу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orijentalni institut u Chicagu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orijentalni institut u Čikagu”
- Spanish: “Instituto Oriental de Chicago”
- Swedish: “Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures”
- Ukrainian: “Інститут дослідження давніх культур, Західної Азії та Північної Африки”
- Ukrainian: “Східний інститут (Чикаго)”
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