Honor their memory with a charitable gift.

To create connections between people and animals that will inspire lifelong conservation of the natural world.

Wonder Works is a children's museum that helps increase access to creativity and imagination by delivering hands-on play experience. We inspire curiosity by exposing and engaging young children and their caretakers with thoughtful exhibits and areas of play.

Established in 1992, Woman Made Gallery (WMG) works for the equal representation and recognition of women's art. Woman Made Gallery supports, cultivates and promotes the diverse contributions of women in the arts through exhibitions and other programs that serve, educate and enrich the community.

Making leather, BDSM, kink and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement.

TO SPARK EXCITEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY, AND DESIGN THROUGH A DYNAMIC EXPLORATION OF GLESSNER HOUSE, ITS FAMILY, AND ITS PRESERVATION.

The Mission of Elmhurst Art Museum is to provide the people of Elmhurst and surrounding communities with a center for exploring the visual arts of our time.  The Museum strives to produce a welcoming atmosphere, where art can be viewed, studied, created, and appreciated.  The architecturally significant facility enriches the lives of visitors by broadening their knowledge of art and design, increasing the understanding of the visual arts, and sparking the development of individual creative talent.

The Children's Museum in Oak Lawn's mission is to positively impact a child's potential in life through play-based education.

The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can directly experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time. The Museum boldly interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge, and illuminate our visitors and to provide insight into the creative process. The MCA engages diverse audiences and creates a sense of community by providing a place to contemplate and discuss contemporary art and culture and issues of our day.

FACILITATE HISTORIC MANSION ACTIVITIES

Our mission is to enhance the community through the informal education of the Arts and Sciences. The Children's Museum of Illinois is a hands-on, interactive museum for children ages preschool to twelve. Its exhibits and activities complement and enhance children's educational opportunities, particularly in the arts and sciences. The museum contributes to the community's quality of life as an educational facility, visitor attraction, family activity and site for volunteers.

In service to the memory of the men and women of the Illinois State Police

In accordance with the Statement of Purpose, Article II of the Constitution, adopted by the McLean County Historical Society; it is the Mission of this society to educate the general public on the history of the people of McLean County by operating museums and libraries which provide exhibits, public programs and research collections; to develop publications; and to acquire and preserve collections which reflect the diversity of McLean County. This Mission is implemented through the accomplishment of the following:To educate the public through the interpretive exhibition of objects and to develop public educational programs in association with the people and institutions of our community.To acquire, in conformance with the collections policy, objects, papers, periodicals, and books which reflect all segments of the community and to preserve these collections through proper storage and conservation measures, and to exhibit them in secure environments.To support research in local and family history by making books, manuscripts, and databases accessible and to support the same by providing the professional staff assistance and guidance in the course of such research.To publish popular and scholarly works.To encourage public support of the museum through donation of time and money by all segments of the community.To interpret and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings and sites.To continually pursue professional standards through participation in state and national museum and heritage organizations and to remain an American Association of Museums (AAM) accredited institution.Approved by the Board of Directors September 20, 1995.