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• It Takes a Fleet: Working Boats of the Chicago River

  From June 19 to June 29, 2008, you can come to the Bridgehouse Museum to take a close look at the boats that keep the Chicago River safe, clean and vibrant. Read more... Read more...

  Read our 2008 Season Opening Press Release

  "CULTURAL ANCHOR OF THE DOWNTOWN RIVERWALK REOPENS" Group uses innovative Michigan Avenue Bridgehouse to tells river's - and Chicago's - story. Read more...

  Bridgehouse Museum joins night-long cultural celebration

  The Bridgehouse Museum joins one hundred other venues in a Loop-wide celebration of arts, culture and architecture for Looptopia '08. Museum doors will stay open afterhours on May 2nd and admission will be free between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Read more...

  Join our Efforts

  Learn how you can be a part of this fantastic new educational resource.

  It's easy to get here

  Located in the middle of it all, the Bridgehouse Museum connects Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile with Chicago's loop. It's walking distance to most of downtown's parks and shops, so give yourself plenty of time to explore.

  Plan Your Visit

  The Bridgehouse Museum is open Thursdays-Mondays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through October 31. General admission is $3. Children under age five enter free.Click here for more information.

Corporate Club

Your Corporate Club membership not only shows your company’s civic and environmental commitment - it also comes with benefits you can share with your employees, associates and clients.

Corporate Club memberships are essential to sustaining the operation of our unique historical museum with an environmental mission. Join other corporate leaders who support McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum’s efforts to reveal the river’s story to larger audiences and inspire more people to take part in its revival.

Become a Corporate Club member today and share this unique destination with your employees and clients in 2008. Let them discover that the Bridgehouse Museum is more than an educational institution. With its engaging stories about the river, intriguing location inside one of Michigan Avenue Bridge’s landmark towers, and marvelous bridge gears exhibit, the museum is a treasured addition to Chicago’s colorful cultural landscape. Corporate Club benefits include:

• FREE museum admission
• Family season passes
• Community-wide recognition of your support
• Corporate entertainment opportunities

Join no later than February 29, 2008 at the Patron, Benefactor or Presidium Circle level and we will acknowledge your membership by including your company’s name and logo in our full-page Crain’s Chicago Business ad!

Membership levels

• Presidium Circle $5,000+
• Benefactor $2,500
• Patron $1,000
• Leader $500
• Sustainer $250
• Supporter $100

Download the 2008 Corporate Club Membership Brochure PDF 2MB.

Join our Corporate Club now and your membership will have twice the impact. In 2007, the McCormick Tribune Foundation awarded a $100,000 challenge grant to Friends for capacity building at our museum. The first $100,000 of new or increased revenue we raise for the Bridgehouse Museum will be matched dollar for dollar by the Foundation - meaning that your support will be doubled.

By becoming a Corporate Club member, your company positions itself as a champion of responsible environmental stewardship, while at the same time sustaining Chicago’s cultural vibrancy - a dual contribution to a better quality of life in our great city.

Corporate Club Members

Presidium Circle
Crain’s Chicago Business
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks

Patron
Jenner & Block LLP
Lowis & Gellen LLP

Leader
Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Sustainer
Belgravia Group Ltd.
McBride Kelley Baurer