Stopped in to see the special exhibit of Snoopy/NASA. Nicely set up. Went upstairs to the permanent displays about Elmhurst history and was impressed at the quality of displays. Also had a well produced video on town history. Would have spent more time there but my young children were not quite old enough to appreciate it all. Building, itself, is a beautiful old mansion worth walking around.

The Elmhurst History Museum isn't to be compared to the Chicago History Museum or the Museum of Science and Industry or the Field Museum. But it's the kind of regionally oriented museum that every small town should endorse. Located at 120 East Park Avenue in Elmhurst, one of Chicago's western suburbs, at York Street, south of North Avenue, it was founded in 1957 in a historically significant landmark known as the Glos Mansion, the former home of Elmhurst's first village president, Henry Glos, which was built in 1892. The museum, which is open from 1 to 5 Tuesday through Friday, from 10 to 5 on Saturday and from 1 to 5 on Sunday, also operates the Churchville School House, which was built in 1850 and is one of the only remaining one-room school houses on its original site. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it provides today's school children with an authentic living history experience led by an old-fashioned schoolmarm from the early 1900s. Meanwhile, the museum connects visitors with Elmhurst's own history through a collection of more than 15,000 three-dimensional artifacts, archives featuring letters, manuscripts and more than 10,000 historic photographs, a library of more than 500 books, enlightening exhibits, engaging interactive displays an microfilm copies of Elmhurst newspapers. Current exhibits include Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior and By All Accounts: The Story of Elmhurst. As a life-long Chicago resident and a historian, I think it is a fascinating and educational experience to learn about everything and everybody that we come in contact with. The Elmhurst History Museum is worth a visit.

Nice exhibit, Road Trip; it brought back memories of childhood, driving to South Dakota, Wall Drug, Mount Rushmore, etc.