About science and industry,museum

Science and Industry,Museum of,In Chicago, Illinois, the largest science museum in a single building in the Western Hemisphere. The museum was founded by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald (president of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.) in 1926, presented to Chicago in 1929, and partially opened to the public in 1933. Housed in the former Fine Arts Building of the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the museum contains pavilions dedicated to physics, chemistry, fuels, metals, medicine, agriculture, transportation, the graphic arts, and engineering. The museum is well known for its visitor-operated mechanical devices and exhibits.