Peoria Riverfront Museum

rdf:langString Peoria Riverfront Museum

rdf:langString Peoria Riverfront Museum

rdf:langString Peoria Riverfront Museum

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rdf:langString The Peoria Riverfront Museum is a private museum of art, science, history, and achievement located on the riverfront in downtown Peoria, Illinois in a building owned by the County of Peoria. The Museum has five major galleries and a dozen smaller display spaces for rotating exhibitions. It is also known for its 40-ft. dome Digistar 7 planetarium, and for film screenings on a 70 ft. flat screen, the largest in Illinois. Exhibition partners include philanthropist Alice Walton's Art Bridges foundation, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, and the Whitney Museum of American Art with special emphasis on its cultural partnerships with New York institutions. Permanent displays include the Center for American Decoys, "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story", the Duryea Experience, and other items in the Museum's 18,000-object collection, which is constantly being rotated for guests. The museum opened its 87,000 Sq. ft. building on October 20, 2012 as the successor to Peoria's Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, established in 1965.