Museum Campus

Museum Campus is a station in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Museum Campus is situated near the ruins City Water Tunnel Shaft, as well as near the work of art Olmec colossal heads.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: The Field Museum of Natural History and Soldier Field.

The Field Museum of Natural History

Museum

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The Field Museum of Natural History is a private–public natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The Field Museum of Natural History is situated 930 feet south of Museum Campus.

Soldier Field

Stadium

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Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League since 1971, as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer since 2020. Soldier Field is situated 2,300 feet south of Museum Campus.

Olmec colossal heads

Work of art

Photo: Glysiak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from 1.17 to 3.4 metres. The heads date from at least 900 BCE and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. Olmec colossal heads is situated 530 feet south of Museum Campus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Museum Campus and South Loop.

Museum Campus

Locality

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Museum Campus is a 57-acre park in Chicago along Lake Michigan. It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place.

South Loop

Quarter

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South Loop is a Chicago neighborhood south of the Loop. The South Branch of the Chicago River flows through it. Chinatown is adjacent to the southwest, and Museum Campus is to its east.

Dearborn Park

Neighborhood

Dearborn Park is a residential Chicago neighborhood in South Loop. It is part of the Loop and Near South Side community areas of Chicago, and has a public park of the same name.

Museum Campus

Type: Station
Categories: passenger ship terminal and transport
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.86859° or 41° 52′ 7″ north

Longitude

-87.61564° or 87° 36′ 56″ west

Operator

Shoreline Water Taxi

Network

Shoreline Water Taxi

Open location code

86HJV99M+CP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 992006194

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=ferry_terminal

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

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Highlights: City Water Tunnel Shaft and Sick Family Lakefront Terrace.

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