Rockford Museums

Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford has been ranked as the best Japanese garden in North America. Hoichi Kurisu designed the garden. Burpee Museum of Natural History is located just north of downtown. Burpee Museum has three floors of...

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Address: 318 Spring Creek Rd, Rockford, IL, United States‎ - (815) 282-0617
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The Burpee Museum of Natural History is situated along the Rock River in Downtown Rockford in Illinois. This museum has four floors with modern exhibits. Some of the exhibits are specimen based having interactive and...

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Address: 737 North Main Street
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The Heritage Museum is situated in a quaint house which was built in 1850. Overall, there are six galleries which are totally devoted to the primary immigrant groups which settled in Southwest Rockford. There are displays of early...

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Address: 1129 South Main Street.
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Faust hotel is the tallest building in Rockford. It was built in 1929 and has many art deco features. It has a tower, several stories above the rest of the building, topping off at 15 stories. This hotel was the center...

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Address: 925 5th Ave, Rockford, IL
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Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center is the oldest continuous community music organization in the United States. It provides quality music for all people of the northern Illinois region through live performances by local and world-renowned...

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Address: 415 N Church St, Rockford, IL, United States‎ - (815) 964-9713‎
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Midway Village and Museum Center is a picturesque turn-of-the-century Victorian village featuring twenty-six historic structures and heritage gardens. Museum Center offers five exhibition galleries of Rockford's unique and ethnic history. It...

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Address: 6799 Guilford Rd, Rockford, IL, United States‎ - (815) 397-9112‎
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Rockford Art Museum began as a small local art group in 1913. More than 100 years later, the organization enjoys one of the largest gallery spaces in the state. The gallery has contemporary surveys of regional and national artwork. The...

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Address: 711 N. Main Street
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Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum was built in 1865 which provides a glimpse of the life of the 19th century. It combines exterior elements of a Swiss Chalet with elements from the Victorian era. A swing foot bridge razed in 1976 ran from the...

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Address: 411 Kent St, Rockford, IL, United States‎ - (815) 964-2424‎
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