Our up-to-date calendar of FREE Chicago Museums, Libraries, Art Galleries, Gardens and Sights offering free admission, suggested admission or suggested and pay-what-you-wish entry for specific days of the week, month or free for select hours. Use the no-cost or low-cost admittance to see a favorite art work, exhibit, gallery or garden. Note that this takes into account general admission only; certain events and special exhibitions may still require a fee.
21C Museum Hotel Chicago, 55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA
Design Museum of Chicago, 72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601, USA
Lincoln Park Zoo, 2400 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
The Button Museum, 3407 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615, USA
National Veterans Art Museum, 4041 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60641, USA
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622, USA
The University of Chicago, The Oriental Institute, 1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
American Toby Jug Museum, 910 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60202, USA
Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S DuSable Lk Shr Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Fields Museums, 1400 S DuSable Lk Shr Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Mindworks: The Science of Thinking, Archicenter, 224 S Michigan Ave #102, Chicago, IL 60604, USA
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
The DuSable, 740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Cobb Lecture Hall, Cobb Lecture Hall, 5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Chicago’s Museum Campus, 1300 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Leather Archives & Museum, 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
The Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, Illinois 60613
