Outdoor Museum: On this island you will find the big and comprehensive Nordiska (Nordic) Museum, one of its countless features being a big statue of Gustav Vasa (opposite the entrance) by Carl Milles; Skansen Park, an outdoor museum of Sweden and a hill of popular restaurants and fun; Waldermarsudde (Waldemar's Point), once the home of the artist Prince Eugene, brother of King Gustav V, and now a museum of his collections and his own paintings; the Thiel Art Gallery (Thielska Galleriet) devoted in large part to the works of 20th-century painters and sculptors; Rosendal Palace, built by King Charles XIV John (Marshal Bernadotte, the first of that line, whose wife was Desiree), and now restored as a museum of his times; and a great area of lovely woods through which your car should roll slowly.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
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