The Art Institute of Chicago

The Obama Portraits, featuring Kehinde Wiley’s painting of President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrayal of former first lady Michelle Obama, are on view in our galleries for just eight weeks this summer. Here’s how to see them.

The Chicago School of Design, the predecessor of the Art Institute of Chicago, was founded in 1879. In December 1882, the college was renamed the Art Museum of Chicago. In its early days, the museum was spread out in several different locations in the city center. It was not until late 1893 that the museum moved into a building that had been built earlier in the year for the Columbia Exposition. The museum is located in downtown Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan and is connected by three three-story buildings. Collecting exhibits extremely rich to painting, sculpture is given priority to, complementary with architecture, photography, arts and crafts, textiles, etc., the time span from 3000 BC in ancient Egypt GuTao and contemporary pop art, works of art by Greek, Rome, Europe, the United States is given priority to, and India, southeast Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, Africa and the Americas artwork, it could be called is the universal museum. It is one of the top three museums in the United States. Here you can spend the day exploring this great museum at your own pace.