Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

The south facade of the Museum of Science and Industry overlooks a reflecting lagoon in Jackson Park
Former name	Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Rosenwald Industrial Museum
Established	1933; 91 years ago (1933)
Location	5700 South DuSable Lake Shore Drive (at East 57th Street), Chicago, Illinois, US, 60637
Coordinates	41°47′26″N 87°34′58″W / 41.79056°N 87.58278°W / 41.79056; -87.58278
Type	Science and technology museum
Visitors	1.5 million (2016)[1]
Founder	Julius Rosenwald
Public transit access	CTA Bus routes: Routes 6 and 28 (to 56th Street and Hyde Park Boulevard) Route 10 (to Museum of Science and Industry) Route 55 (to Museum of Science and Industry) Metra Train: 55th–56th-57th Street Station (between Stony Island and Lake Park Avenues)
Website	www.msichicago.org
Chicago Landmark
Designated	November 1, 1995

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Initially endowed by Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago, it opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition. It was renamed for benefactor and financier Kenneth C. Griffin on May 19, 2024.

Among the museum's most notable exhibits are a full-size replica coal mine, German submarine U-505 captured during World War II, a United Airlines Boeing 727, the first streamlined diesel-powered passenger train in the US (Pioneer Zephyr), the command module of Apollo 8, and a 3,500-square-foot (330 m²) model railroad. Other exhibits cover manufacturing, environmental science, chemistry, physics, computers, the brain, and mechanics of the human body.