Riverfront Museum

The Peoria Riverfront Museum (PRM) is a secretly supported, non-benefit historical center of workmanship, science, history, and accomplishment. The Smithsonian-subsidiary, AAM-authorize exhibition hall disregards the Illinois River in downtown Peoria, Illinois. The historical center gave 180,000 guest encounters in financial year 2016-17. PRM highlights five expansive displays and 25 add up to show spaces for transitory presentations and lasting accumulations, a 70 ft. expansive screen theater, a 40 ft. full-vault planetarium, and an intelligent Illinois High School Association display.

PRM opened on October 20, 2012. A claim to fame asset of the historical center is the "Illinois River Encounter," a family-arranged display that endeavors to be the conclusive aquarium of the Illinois River, which streams neighboring the gallery. Adjoining shows portray the environment, social history, and building of the working waterway.

The exhibition hall's accumulations incorporate compelling artwork (canvases, models, chips away at paper), enhancing workmanship (furniture, earthenware production, metal, glass, materials), society craftsmanship (artistic creations, figures, designs, brightening expressions, and so on.), ethnographic craftsmanship (Native American, African, Oceanic, Asian), normal science curios (rocks and minerals, bugs, shells), and noteworthy antiques including a Duryea Motor Wagon Company auto, theater and musical show notices, and square moving things. PRM claims a critical accumulation of society workmanship wildfowl bait carvings.

The Peoria Riverfront Museum was financed by private commitments with help from gave arrive by the city of Peoria and support for the working by an assessment choice endorsed by voters of Peoria County. The activities are bolstered by gifts and earned income while the building and grounds are possessed by Peoria County and rented to the historical center by open private association understanding.