The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, or MSI, in Jackson Park, to launch online site devoted to unseen treasures

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Later this year, the Museum of Science and Industry will launch an online site devoted to these unseen treasures from the institution's permanent collection.

Later this year, the Museum of Science and Industry will launch an online site devoted to these unseen treasures from the institution's permanent collection.In the 90 years since Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry first opened its doors in late 1933, the institution has hosted more than 190 million people.

And those permanent exhibits include long-time favorites, like the full-sized German World War II sub, the U-505; the Coal Mine; Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle, an elaborate dollhouse created by the eponymous silent film star; and the Baby Chick Hatchery.

They include some incredible artifacts, like a massive, hollowed tree trunk that is at least 12 feet in length. But while it looks like a tree trunk, it is actually a piece of sewer pipe used in London during the late 17th century, before metal was commonly used for infrastructure. Perhaps the oddest artifact is an object called "The Violet Ray," an antique medical appliance from the early 20th century, which was actually used for electrotherapy.

"A lot of people don't realize that Rolls-Royce used to make engines for airplanes and that they didn't just make cars, especially in that time period," Sardakis said."At the time the Museum of Science and Industry first opened in 1933, the Century of Progress World's Fair was going on in Chicago ," Sardakis said.

 

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