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The Museum Is Internationally: The museum is internationally noted especially for its baroque masterpieces, and for containing the most significant collection in the United States of the work of Peter Paul Rubens. Among other masters represented are : Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, Guercino, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Velazquez, El Greco, Murillo, Goya, Thomas Gainsborough, and Joshua Reynolds. A tiny jewellike 18th century theater, once a feature of the Castle of Asolo, was brought from Italy in 1950, forms an exhibit, and is used constantly for the museum's cultural and educational program.The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln. |
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