museums

Tickets for Smithsonian magazine's 13th annual Museum Day Live! are now available for download!

Chicago, America’s third largest city, has a fantastic slate of family and kid-friendly attractions. The windy city on Lake Michigan also is blessed with some very fine parks, playgrounds, beaches, museums, conservatories and zoos.

Announcing a museum stop while you’re on a family vacation may inspire groans from the back seat, but the slate of current exhibits looks so good that you might not even have to promise a trip to the gift shop afterward.