The Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, Illinois)
| museum, public aquarium / oceanarium / seaquarium, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places
USA /
Illinois /
Chicago /
Chicago, Illinois /
South Lake Shore Drive (US 41), 1200
World
/ USA
/ Illinois
/ Chicago
World / United States / Illinois
museum, public aquarium / oceanarium / seaquarium, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places
Second largest aquarium in the world with more than 8,000 aquatic animals. The building it is in was designed c. 1929 by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White through a gift from John G. Shedd.
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/87000820
1200 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2490
(312) 939-2426
www.sheddaquarium.org
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/87000820
1200 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2490
(312) 939-2426
www.sheddaquarium.org
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedd_Aquarium
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°52'3"N 87°36'49"W
- Museum Campus 0.5 km
- Morton Arboretum 40 km
- Cantigny Park 46 km
- Aurora Municipal Airport (AUZ/KARR) 73 km
- Hesston Steam Museum 78 km
- Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) 87 km
- Midway Village Museum 123 km
- Alamo 167 km
- International Crane Foundation 257 km
- Old Town Neighborhood 270 km
- Northerly Island 0.9 km
- Monroe Harbor 1 km
- Grant Park 1.2 km
- Near South Side 1.3 km
- Chicago Loop 1.4 km
- McCormick Place 1.7 km
- Chicago Harbor 2.1 km
- Douglas 3.7 km
- Burnham Park 4.4 km
- Bronzeville 4.7 km