Spurlock Museum, Illinois, United States
4.5 (42 reviews) Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Spent Ranking #5 in Champaign-Urbana Speciality Museums
See the World in One Compact Museum!
The Spurlock Museum’s five feature galleries house exhibits representing peoples of the following cultures and geographic areas of the world: Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, and Africa; Ancient Greece and Rome; East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; Europe; and American Indian Cultures of North and South America.Special exhibits, based in the Campbell Gallery, serve as a springboard for unique programs, tours, and special events.Through our collections and educational programs, we help interpret the diversity of cultures through time and across the globe.
Address
600 S Gregory St at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign-Urbana, IL 61801-3759
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Website
http://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday : 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 8:31
User Ratings
4.5 based on (42 reviews)
Reviews
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5Kenneth G 5:00 PM Apr 6, 2018
This Museum is about people's Lives
The Spurlock presents it's collection with the intent to present the whole-life experience of people from a specific culture. It happily mixes currency displays with clothing, games, and sculpture from a specific cultural group. This will confuse you if you are expecting to discuss the artistic merits of a particular painting or sculpture. I love knowing what kind of clothing was worn by the people who produced this particular sculpture, so I love the scope of this museum. The collection is ecclectic - for example they have a mould of the frieze around the accropolis that was done before it was defaced by gunfire (in the Greek and Roman antiquties section). They also have the best exhibit I've ever seen explaining how our alphebet developed (in the middle east section). There are five main galleries. I can absorb about one in a day and spend about two hours doing it. More than that and I get overloaded.
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4timfl2016 5:00 PM Dec 9, 2019
Three Functions
First, it is a museum of world cultures; second, it has a lecture hall for public lectures and films/movies; third, often in conjunction with the second function, it provides a venue for receptions.
