2024: A Look Back
As we reflect on a remarkable 2024, here are a few stand-out moments worth celebrating:
🏛️ In June, we hosted our Grand Reopening, adding 30,000 square feet to our campus with the 1926 Murphy Auditorium.
✨For the first time, we offered Free Wednesday evenings – complimentary admission from 4-7pm – and access to special performances and programs once a month during our Third Wednesday Nights.
🖼️ We also hosted three new exhibitions:
🔥A Tale of Today: Sif Itona Westerberg marked the fifth year of our contemporary series, deepening our dialogue between our past and present.
💎Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective featured 400 years of rare jewelry collected by Chicagoans.
📸Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright presented new scholarship on Frank Lloyd Wright and the impact of photography on his work.
Follow along to see how we continue to expand access to extraordinary art, architecture, and design for all in 2025 ⭐
📸 photos by Kyle Flubacker, Bob., Robin Subar, Jeremy Lawson, Brian Griffin
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Surround yourself with gilded age holiday glamour ✨🎄
📍Driehaus Museum, 50 E. Erie
🕰️ Open Wed 11am - 7pm & Thu - Sun 11am - 5pm
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Some things are worth a closer look 🌟🔍
What will you discover on your next trip to the Driehaus Museum?
🎬 video by @bob.mov
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In 1939, 22 year old Pedro Guerrero traveled from his home in Mesa, Arizona to Scottsdale to practice photography. His subject, architecture school Taliesin West, had opened just two years prior, and Guerrero asked for a meeting with the head architect. Guerrero shared his portfolio with Frank Lloyd Wright, launching a seven-decade career in architecture photography. In these clips from our audio guide, Co-Creative Director of Chicago Humanities Lauren M. Pacheco describes Pedro Guerrero’s work and his relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright closes January 5. Visit now to hear more experts and artists discuss the prolific architect and the photographers who documented his work. The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust is our collaborating partner in this exhibition @flwtrust
Object Info:
1. Pedro Guerrero, Photographer Unknown, Courtesy the Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero/© The Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero
2. Wright's Hands, Pedro Guerrero, 1953, Courtesy the Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero/© The Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero
3. George S. Sturges House, Los Angeles, CA, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect; Pedro E. Guerrero, photographer, Courtesy the Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero/© The Estate of Pedro E. Guerrero
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Pantone just announced mocha mousse as the 2025 color of the year ☕️🍫🐻 little do they know, the Nickerson Mansion is nearly 150 years ahead of the trend 🕰️👀
Visit the Driehaus Museum to immerse yourself in #mochamousse (and the amazing art, architecture, and design of the 19th and 20th centuries) today!
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