Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry occupies the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, one of the fair’s few permanent buildings. After serving as home to the Columbian Museum and later the Field Museum until 1920, the structure was preserved and transformed into a science museum through major support from Julius Rosenwald, who envisioned interactive exhibits modeled on Munich’s Deutsches Museum. Established in the late 1920s and opened in stages from 1933 to 1940, it became a leading cultural institution known for major artifacts such as U-505, the Pioneer Zephyr, and Apollo 8, while continuing to evolve through renovations, expansions, and its 2024 renaming.