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Everyone who visits the Illinois State Museum finds something interesting. Full-size dioramas of Native Americans display daily life before Illinois was a state. Other exhibits show the state’s current and former wild animals in their natural habitat. The museum also contains an art gallery and a collection of antique glass paperweights. The gift shop includes many items made by contemporary Illinois craftspeople.

Discover more about the museum and its treasures, including the cast of the skeleton of a mastodon, a huge, extinct, elephant-like mammal, by clicking on the More Information button.

 

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Abraham Lincoln makes an interesting top to this totem pole outside the Illinois State Museum.

Link to official Illinois State Museum web site:
 www.museum.state.il.us

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The Illinois State Museum houses exhibits that appeal to every interest.


The Peoples of the Past exhibit at the Illinois State Museum demonstrates the life of Native Americans hundreds of years ago.


The cast of the skeleton of a huge mastodon is popular with many visitors.


Room exhibits in the At Home in the Heartland section capture life at various times in our recent past.

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