List of museums in Illinois

Museums

Defunct museums

• ABA Museum of Law, Chicago, closed in 2011
• African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archives, Aurora, former sculpture park dedicated to the leaders of Black American history, closed in 2000. Relocated to Hammonds, LA.
• American Police Center & Museum, Chicago
• Americana Hollywood Museum, Metropolis
• ArtWorks Children's Museum, Ingleside
• Barb City Motorcycle Museum, DeKalb, collection sold in 2013
• Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum, Woodstock, closed in 2008, collection now online
• Gardner Museum of Architecture & Design, Quincy
• Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877
• Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, closed in 2012, collections now at the Peoria Riverfront Museum
• Max Nordeen's Wheels Museum, Woodhull
• McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, closed in 2009
• Motorola Museum of Electronics, Schaumburg
• Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, closed in 2009
• Museum of Holography, Chicago
• National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013
• Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, closed in 2015
• Old Barn Museum, Newark
• Oliver Parks Telephone Museum, Springfield
• Park Ridge Historical Society Museum, Park Ridge
• The Peace Museum, Chicago
• Shea's Gas Station Museum, Springfield, contents auctioned off in 2015
• Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, Chicago, closed in 2014
• Stuka Military Museum, Oregon
• Terra Museum, Chicago, closed on October 31, 2004
• Under the Prairie Frontier Archaeological Museum, Athens, operated by the Sangamo Archaeological Center, closed August 1, 2008
• U.S. Senator Paul Simon Museum, Troy, closed in 2012
• Vinegar Hill Historic Lead Mine & Museum, Galena
• Walter Payton Museum, Aurora, part of a restaurant complex that closed in 2010