Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Weird Museums

Leather museum whips up sexy side of history

The Leather Archives and Museum traces history from Joan of Arc onward.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Art

Gordon Matta-Clark: artist, photographer and destroyer of houses

An exhibit on renegade artist Gordon Matta-Clark is in Chicago through May 4.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Weird Museums

Take a trip to the Museum of Holography

Not all holograms are as cute as the sparkly “Good Job!” stickers your third grade teacher stuck to the top of your test.

Sunday, January 27, 2008
This won't hurt a bit

Clamps, drills and an iron lung: Chicago’s Museum of Surgical Science

Come one, come all to see marvelous things! Rusty drills, gallbladder stones and Marie Curie, oh my!

Monday, January 21, 2008
Art and Culture

A diamond in the rough: The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art

Forget breakfast at Tiffany’s; here is a look at the country’s only museum devoted to “a girl’s best friend”.