MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
5700 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 606372093 www.msichicago.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Museum of Science and Industry (the Museum), a 501(c)(3) corporation, is the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere and home to thousands of exhibits and artifacts. For 85 years, the Museum has been a premier destination in Chicago, Illinois. The Museum's mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone and its vision is to inspire and motivate children to achieve their full potential in science, technology, medicine and engineering. Nearly 300,000 students are among the nearly 1,400,000 guests that visit each year, making the Museum the number one Chicago museum field trip destination for the eleventh consecutive year. Through its Welcome to Science Initiative, the Museum engages over 700,000 participants annually in science education programs.

MSI's mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone.

World-class permanent exhibitions include Science Storms, a 26,000-square-foot exhibit that reveals the extraordinary science behind some of nature's most powerful and compelling phenomena; and You! The Experience, a 15,000-square-foot exhibit that explores the human mind, body and spirit. Other favorite experiences include the U-505 Submarine, the only German U-boat captured during World War II, surrounded by more than 30,000 square feet of artifacts and interactive activities; the Coal Mine, a reproduction of an Illinois coal mine that takes guest down 50 feet in a real hoist to the bottom of a mineshaft; The Great Train Story, a dynamic model display that illustrates modern rail operation; and the Giant Dome Theater, which features educational films, rich in content and presented on Chicago's only five-story, domed wrap-around movie screen.

Educational Programs and Activities. The Museum's Welcome to Science Initiative impacts guests and students in the building and in their communities in a variety of ways. MSI offers live science demonstrations, facilitated learning labs for school groups, free teacher development and training, online experiments and lesson plans, after-school science club networks in underserved communities, and a club for teens that helps them learn science skills as they prepare for college.

Museum and Operations, which include Program Support Services and Exhibit Maintenance. These expenses support the Museum's vision of inspiring and motivating children to achieve their full potential in science, technology, and engineering by providing guests and teachers with integrated learning experiences and programming that is centered on exciting and interactive exhibits that help explain how science directly impacts our daily lives.

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