Chicago Museum of Science & Industry Photos

The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry features displays on the history of science, several speed record holders (rail, automotive, aircraft) plus the captured German submarine U-505. The building itself was built as the Fine Arts Building for & is only remaining structure from World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The original plaster exterior was replicated in stone (1929-33). Several groups of architects have been involved over the years: Charles B. Atwood + Graham, Anderson Probst & White + Shaw, Naess & Murphy.

See also: Chicago, Aviation Museums, Railroad Museum & Attractions, Maritime Museums & Historic Ships, Automobile Museums
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Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (former Fine Arts Building for World's Columbian Exposition of 1893) over adjacent lake.

Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (1893) (5700 South Lake Shore Drive) built as Fine Arts Building for & is only remaining structure from World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Style: Beaux-Arts. Architect: Charles B. Atwood + Graham, Anderson Probst & White + Shaw, Naess & Murphy.

Pediment detail of Museum of Science & Industry, for which original plaster exterior was replicated in stone (1929-33).

Caryatids on south side of Museum of Science & Industry.

German submarine U-505 captured by USS Chatelain on June 4, 1944, at Museum of Science & Industry. On National Register.

Structure built to house U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Bow torpedo tubes of U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Conning tower of U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Deck guns of U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Propellers & rudders of U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Stern of U-505 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Stuka 87B-2Trop German dive bomber from WW II at Museum of Science & Industry.

British Spitfire Mark 1A fighter (1940) at Museum of Science & Industry.

British Spitfire & German Stuka hanging in atrium of Museum of Science & Industry.

Curtis Jenny biplane at Museum of Science & Industry.

Boeing 40B-2 Air Mail Plane (1927) at Museum of Science & Industry.

Travel Air Mystery Ship NR1313 (Texaco No.13) which set numerous city-to-city speed records in the 1930s at Museum of Science & Industry.

Coast Guard Sikorsky HH52A Sea Guard Helicopter 1459 at Museum of Science & Industry.

Concord Coach at Museum of Science & Industry.

Painting of men with horses on side of Concord Coach at Museum of Science & Industry.

Conestoga wagon at Museum of Science & Industry.

Empire State Express locomotive 999 which in 1893 set a world speed record of 112.5 mph at Museum of Science & Industry.

First diesel-electric streamlined train, named the Zephyr, was designed by Holabird & Root (exterior) + Paul Phillipe Cret (interior) & built (1934) for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad at Museum of Science & Industry.

Zephyr at Museum of Science & Industry.

Front end of Burlington Route Zephyr at Museum of Science & Industry.

Streamlined shovelnose shape of Zephyr at Museum of Science & Industry.

Bare aluminum skin of rear end of Zephyr train at Museum of Science & Industry.

Spirit of America & Craig Breedlove in 1963 set the world land speed record of 468.72 mph at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats now in Museum of Science & Industry.

Spirit of America which in 1964 again hit a world land speed record of 600 mph at Museum of Science & Industry.

Model railroad at Museum of Science & Industry.

Model railroad circulates through model Chicago at Museum of Science & Industry.


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