For the Contemporary Art Appreciator

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago isThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago hosts
situated at 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinoismany artists, some of whom include Bruce Mau,
60611-2643, United States. The museum is locatedCatherine Opie, Wolfgang Tillmans and Chris Ware.
near the Water Tower Place, in downtown Chicago inThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago was the
Cook County, Illinois, United States. The present locationonly American museum to display Bruce Mau’s
is in the Streeterville neighbourhood which is in the NearMassive Change exhibit in 2006. The attendance
North side community area.record to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago waswas broken in 2008 at the 2008 Koons retrospective,
initially located at 237 East Ontario, in 1967. The earliestwhere a record 86, 5484 visitors visited the museum
director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicagoduring the period of the show (May 31 – September
was Jan van der Marck. At first the Museum of21, 2008).
Contemporary Art, Chicago was only served as aLodging around the area is available at a Chicago hotel,
space where temporary exhibits could be displayed,the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago. Staying in
as in the German Kunsthalle model. Yet, in 1974, theChicago a few days will enable one to enjoy the area
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago obtained amore and have more time left for sightseeing this
permanent collection of contemporary artworks thatwonderful area.
were made after 1945.