Museum of Contemporary Photography — Attraction in Chicago

I have been visiting this museum for years but I will never return after the despicable behavior of their staff. Let me start this by saying I am a Loyola Chicago student and I visited the museum today with 3 of my fellow classmates to complete a class assignment. When we arrived we obviously had book bags and water bottles with us, as we came straight from campus. We purchased our tickets and proceeded to the exhibit. As we walked into the first exhibit we were immediately told by a young women that we could not have our water bottles in , which was weird being that we were not told this by the front desk staff, but this was not a problem so we just took them to the coat check to comply with the rules. As we proceeded to explore the exhibit it was an overall pleasant experience until we encountered a very low vibrational member of the security staff. One of my classmates asked this man could he take a photo of us the man agreed and grabbed his phone to take the picture and then told my classmate that he could not have his book bag on. My classmate then told him that he already spoke to the staff downstairs and that it was okay. This man responded with a lot of aggression and said “that’s not true nobody told you that and matter of fact I don’t even wanna take your picture anymore.” He made us very uncomfortable and we were appalled at how we were being treated over something so minuscule and none of us reciprocated the hostility he projected onto us. We unfortunately didn’t get to finish viewing the exhibit as we felt so uncomfortable. We then decided that we would just leave as we already finished the requirements of our assignment and as we walled out my classmate said “bye have a good night “ to the front desk worker and he then looked at him and went back to his computer as if he never heard him, which we found very rude. You guys should not hire rude staff considering that this is a freaking art museum, people come here to have a good time and not have to deal with such negativity while trying to appreciate...

We just discovered the Museum of Contemporary Photography and I don't know why it took us so long.

We went to a a discussion led by Kristin Taylor, the Curator of Academic Programs and Collections. It was stimulating and enlightening.

The museum is technically free, but, there is there is a donation box in the front of the entrance, feel free to donate!

The actual exhibit area is 3 floors, but the actual exhibit area is small and located in a Columbia College building, Definitely check out the second floor.

They have an inventory of approximately 15000 photos, so they have lots of material for exhibits. In fact, there are new exhibits every couple of months.

They have well known and lesser known photographers in their collection, all of them interesting and worth a look.

I highly suggest checking out their website for the current and upcoming...

Last day in Chicago we visited a little museum of Columbia College , the museum of Contemporary Photography. These days ( and watch – until July) there is an exhibition of College collogue Dawoud Bey devoted to anniversary of September 15th 1963 bombing black community on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Al. (2012) Collection belongs to Birmingham Museum of Art. Bey diptyched feature of portrait of a child at the same age as one of those killed paired with a portrait of an adult at the age the child would have been in the year 2013. The images are remarkable. Also there were photographs illustrating the protests to segregation laws in 50th-60th. Just reminding us about that ugly period of our history. And inspiring to treasure the diversity of our country were each race each faith is equal. Thank you to the college developing...