Talk:Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
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[edit] Image:Museumofscienceandindustry.jpg
This image is currently claimed as fair use, however it should be possible to replace this image with a freely licensed alternative. JeremyA 02:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
- I have now replaced the above image with Image:Museum of Science and Industry 060409.jpg JeremyA 18:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History
The article currently claims that "The building... was intended to be a more permanent structure than the other Exposition buildings...". We just toured this museum the other day, and the museum itself has a history exhibit (on the lower level, near the food court) that claims that this building was also designed to be 'temporary', but sometime was converted to 'permanant' by replacing the exterior (formerly plaster) with limestone, and remodeling the interior over the years. They even had a picture of the museum looking delapated before this exterior conversion existed. I don't have a cite other than this, so I won't change the article quite yet. But I do believe the current info in the article may be incorrect... --Rehcsif 03:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- The Chicago World's Fair of 1893, by Stanley Applebaum, points out that the Fine Arts building was constructed with fireproof materials and was converted into an art museum as soon as the fair closed. The Columbian Museum, as it was called, was closed in 1920, and then sat and rotted for awhile until being refurbished substantially in the early 1930s to make it a truly permanent structure. It would be a stretch to say that it was originally intended to be permanent in the sense of "lasting forever". But it was built to "more permanent" specifications than the other buildings. Semantics. Wahkeenah 04:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
