Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Employee Directory
Museums, Historical Sites, and ZoosIllinois, United States51-200 Employees
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a Chicago-based institution in the Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos sector, located at 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614, with the website naturemuseum.org. In 1999, the Chicago Academy of Sciences established the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as its permanent home in Lincoln Park near the shore of Lake Michigan. The museum's mission is to foster positive relationships between people and nature through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibits, and public forums that connect urban residents to nature and science. Its vision is to be the leading voice on urban ecology and sustainability for the Midwest/Great Lakes region. The organization provides over 76,000 educational contact hours annually for K‑12 education, offers professional development to more than 1,700 teachers, has hosted more than two million visitors since opening, including about 308,000 in 2015, and employs between 51 and 200 staff.