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Peoria Riverfront Museum

Peoria, United States of America

Peoria Riverfront Museum

The Peoria Riverfront Museum is a non-profit multidisciplinary museum of art, science, history, and achievement that promotes itself as the only museum of its kind in the United States. It is located on the Illinois river in downtown Peoria, Illinois. Representing a unique private/public partnership

, the museum is privately funded by donors and members while operating in a building owned by the County of Peoria. The museum has five major galleries and more than 30 other smaller display spaces for constantly rotating exhibitions ranging from international blockbusters to displays from its permanent collection. It is also known for its 40 ft (12 m) Digistar 7 dome planetarium and a film society using a 70 ft (21 m) Giant Screen Theater, the largest known film society screen in the U.S. Exhibition partners include philanthropist Alice Walton's Art Bridges Foundation, the Smithsonian, with a strategic partnership with many leading cultural organizations in New York including the American Museum of Natural History, and the Whitney Museum of American Art the American Folk Art Museum, MoMA, and others. Permanent displays include the Center for American Decoys, "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American...

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