US Museums Offer Oddities, Mummies, Military History

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Illinois offers several unusual, budget-friendly museum outings, from Alton’s American Oddities Museum, with its haunted dolls, spirit boards and sideshow artifacts, to Springfield’s free Illinois State Museum, which traces the state’s natural and cultural history across three floors. In Chicago’s Hyde Park, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures displays antiquities from ancient West Asia and North Africa, including Egyptian coffins and a monumental winged bull; admission is free on certain evenings. Together, these museums offer families and curious visitors affordable ways to explore everything from Illinois history and science to eerie Americana and ancient civilizations.

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