Museum of Broadcast Communications
Categories: Museums in Chicago
The Museum of Broadcast Communications is located in Chicago, Illinois. Its mission is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is one of only three broadcast museums in America and home to the nation’s only Radio Hall of Fame.
The museum opened in Chicago's South Loop in 1987, and from 1992 to 2003 was located in the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2006, the museum will reopen in a new 70,000 square foot (7,000 m²) facility on State and Kinzie Streets, adjacent to Harry Caray's Restaurant and the House of Blues Hotel, just north of the Chicago Loop.
According to the museum's web site, in 2003, the Museum was Chicago’s fourteenth most visited cultural destination with over 200,000 visitors.