Lakeview Museum
of Arts & Sciences

1125 West Lake Avenue Peoria, IL 61614
phone: (309) 686.7000

Peoria Riverfront
Museum

peoria riverfront museum The planned Peoria Riverfront Museum will be built on two square blocks in downtown Peoria, next to the Caterpillar Visitor Center. Click here to see a preview of this exciting project.

Events & Registrations

Interplanetary Bicycle Ride Registration

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International Year of Astronomy 2009

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Summer Classes

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Museum Store

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Museum Store

Summer Book Sale

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Summer Book Sale

Main Gallery

June 20 - September 7, 2009
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There can be no doubt of the overwhelming importance of memory in our individual lives. We spend much of our waking lives remembering. Our ability to perform the simplest tasks relies on remembering what to do and how to do it. Our very sense of who we are rests largely in remembering where we've been, whom we've known, what we've done, and how we've felt. Memory, a major new exhibition at Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, opens to the public June 20, 2009.

Illinois Folk Art Gallery

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One of the greatest strengths of Lakeview Museum's collection is its midwestern folk art collection. This collection comprises more than 600 works of art spanning three centuries of Midwestern creative expression.

Planetarium Shows

Illinois River Decoy Gallery

The Decoy Gallery features permanent exhibits of decoys by Illinois' most famous carvers - Charles Perdew, Robert Elliston, G. Bert Graves, Charles Walker and Charles Schoenheider, Sr. In addition, a small changing exhibit area features decoys from the museum's permanent collection and those generously lent from private collections.

Discovery Center

The Discovery Center is an area for children of all ages to enjoy hands-on art & science exhibits. The area features more than 30 different displays to challenge and delight the mind, including the mineral house, the cloud ring, the duck-in kaleidoscope, shadow walls, the ever-popular pin wall, and much more.