May 28 – September 5, 2016 - This exhibition, from the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, uses examples of Lautrec’s sketches, drawings, books, albums, and original posters to examine his artistic process. The exhibition also incorporates costumes from several of the Metropolitan Opera’s productions of La Boheme – Puccini’s unforgettable tale of love, ...

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May 28 – October 2, 2016 - This exhibit encompasses a sampling of Whistler’s subjects and media. The Steven L. Block Collection from the Speed Art Museum, forming the core of the exhibition, is a comprehensive and rich resource to study the full range of the artist’s lithographic career. It is complemented by etchings and drawings from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, ...

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May 28 - September 05, 2016 - The Camp Iris exhibition features three nearly eight-foot high A-frame structures with transparent, colored acrylic walls held in place by cedar frames and anchored to the ground.Inspired by historic photographs of the Hyde, Hoopes, and Cunningham families in the Museum's archives, which depicted the original function of the gardens and grounds as a social space f...

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May 28, 2016 - January 2, 2017 - Crocs have flourished for 200 million years. Now you can explore the complex lives of crocodilians a group of reptiles that includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials in a new exhibition featuring live species, life-sized dioramas, and interactive exhibits.

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Butterflies & Blooms is a butterfly exhibition where visitors can immerse themselves in a habitat filled with hundreds of live butterflies. This exhibition is filled with species native to South America, Asia, North America, and Africa, as well as those native to Illinois. The 2,800-square-foot white mesh enclosure is located on the Annex Road, as you head out from the Visitor Center to McDon...

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May 28 - September 4, 2016 - Based on the popular book by Dr. Wayne Lynch, The Scoop on Poop will introduce the whole family to the science of poop! Listen in on a bear’s digestive system, learn the language of poop in countries around the world, examine fecal samples in a veterinarian’s lab, compete in dung beetle races, track wild animals by clues left in scat, improve your #2 IQ in ...

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May 28 - September 4, 2016 - This exhibition will display both objects, the sword for the first time in public, with video and interactives to bring their world to life.​ This work, recently published in translation by WAM's Curator of Arms and Armor, is one of the most important sources for modern swordfighters who are today reviving the combat arts of medieval and Renaissance Europe. In 20...

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May 28, 2016 - October 31, 2018 - Rob Fischer's Omi Pond House is a site-specific sculptural exhibition created in response to the distinct environment of Omi's pond that activates the aquatic space at Omi for the first time. This "building" does not provide privacy, practicality or purpose upon close inspection, but rather exists as a stunning and joyous sculpture intertwi...

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January 30 - May 22, 2016 - The largest exhibit featuring flying reptiles ever mounted in the United States, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, highlights the latest research by Museum scientists and leading paleontologists around the world. Featuring rare pterosaur fossils and casts from Italy, Germany, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, as well as life-size m...

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May 31 - August 14, 2016 - The ICA presents an exhibiton of sketchbooks, miniature paintings, and small sculptures. Not much bigger than two inches by three inches, the miniatures are as completely realized as full-breadth canvases. The sculptures, some cast in bronze from plaster models, have been constructed largely from found objects, are so elemental in form and substance they a...

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