Historical Museum: The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico, a modern structure faithful in style to the old Spanish-pueb architecture, displays a fine permanent collectii of Southwestern art and presents a special e: hibition during the fiesta each year. Anothi building of the Museum of New Mexico is tl old Palace of the Governors, which houses tl School of American Research (a nonprofit coi poration devoted to the study of man on tl American continents), and the Historical museum Societ of New Mexico, and it exhibits a wealth c archaeological and Historical museum materials of th Southwest.
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 museum Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
Other outstanding collections of artistic, Historical museum, or scientific materials are on public display at the California Historical museum Society, the Society of California Pioneers, the San Francisco Maritime Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences. |
