Illinois is home to one of America’s greatest art museums – The Art Institute of Chicago and many additional off the beaten path galleries.

Chicago:

The Art Institute of Chicago – hands down one of my favorite art museums period. It will take you at least a full day to get through the galleries, which include one of the largest collections of Impressionist painters outside of Europe…add in Picasso, Matisse, and an Asian collection…this is the center of Art in the American Midwest

Museum of Contemporary Art

Smart Museum of Art – University of Chicago

DePaul Art Museum

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Design Museum of Chicago

Loyola University Museum of Art

Polish Museum of America

National Hellenic Museum

Block Museum of Art (Evanston)

Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio

Bloomington:

• McLean County Arts Center

Champaign:

• Krannert Art Museum

Charleston:

• Tarble Arts Center

DeKalb:

• NIU Art Museum

Des Plaines

• Oakton Sculpture Park

Elmhurst

• Elmhurst Art Museum

Mt. Vernon:

• Cedarhurst Center for the Arts

Peoria:

• Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences

Rockford:

• Rockford Art Museum

Skokie:

• Skokie North Shore Sculpture Park

University Park:

• Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park