The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, include…
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research.
Established: 1879; in present location since 1893
Location: 111 South Michigan Avenue · Chicago, Illinois 60603 · U.S.
Collection size: 300,000 works
Visitors: 1.04 million (2022)
Director: James Rondeau
Public transit access: CTA Bus routes: · (6 and 28 line) · 'L' and Subway stations: · Adams-Wabash: · Monroe/State: · Monroe/Dearborn: · Metra Train: · Van Buren Street Station
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