spurlock museum

Lesliedancing

Thanks so much for visiting the Spurlock Museum. We're glad you enjoyed your time with us. Please bookmark our online calendar and check often for special upcoming events. Or, better still, let us put you on our mailing list!

pdrane56

I'm so glad you enjoyed your time at the Museum. We appreciate your helping us spread the word about all we have to offer and hope you will come back again soon. Watch our online calendar for upcoming events and temporary exhibits.

MaximiliaanM_13

Thanks so much for visiting and taking the time to fill out a review. Make sure to check our website for new temporary exhibits or special events the next time you are in the area.

Bookworm46

Thank you so much for visiting the Museum and taking the time to write a review. We're glad you enjoyed your time here and hope you will return in the future.

Illinifan1980

I'm so glad you enjoyed your visit. Let me know if you would like to be on our mailing list and hear about upcoming exhibits, programs, and special events.

daleChampaign

took my office staff for a team building outing - really nice place. look out for their crack barny five staff.

Reliabill

This small museum has much to offer, including a thoughtful reminder of how important a museum like this can be. It has a superb collection of plaster casts of the great works of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art--and for those who are inclined to snub plaster casts, , as I once was, there is an irrefutable counterargument expressed by the plaster casts of the Parthenon frieze. The originals, the so-called Elgin Marbles, are in the British Museum, but these have deteriorated since the casts were made, so the casts give viewers a more complete array of what the frieze looked like. The museum makes it possible to see actual-size precise reproductions of magnificent sculptures in central Illinois. The original works are no less impressive, including fragments of a papyrus New Testament, and a spectacular collection of South American native art.

tyrannicide_01

This is a great museum for educators, kids, and culture enthusiasts. It is wonderfully organized by area and theme and does a great job pointing to both cultural similarities and difference across time and place. Solid.

SKofIL

Excellent small museum on the University of Illinois campus. Has great revolving exhibits. It has a mummy where CAT scans and research has been done on it.

vasudhachara

An incredibly great place in Urbana - with cultural artifacts from different parts of the world. Occasionally they host cultural events of excellent quality. Check out their calendar of events before you go. If there is an 'around the world' event don't let your child (or an inner child in you) miss it. Here you will marvel at the Parthenon frieze, wonder at the collection of native American objects and after the experience leave a different human being!

60PG

We're so glad that you enjoyed the "Children Just Like Me" temporary exhibit (the exhibit with the passports); it was very popular with our family visitors. We host two temporary exhibits per year, so that we can regularly cover topics and areas of the world not discussed in our feature galleries and highlight objects normally in Museum storage. Visit our website calendar of events for information on what is on display on any given date. On the date of this writing (1/3/13) we are featuring a temporary exhibit called "A World of Shoes, which will be up through 2/10/13. Thanks again for visiting.

toadkeep

Small, but surprisingly wide array of artifacts and information readily accessible to the public. Takes about two hours to view thoroughly. Special exhibitions: in May 2012 it was carnaval around the world.

LukeVonRose

I went with a few of my friends as well as my fiance to a few lectures about the mummy in the museum as well as a lecture from a visiting scholar telling about his experience revealing the identity of a child mummified body from the District of Columbia. Both lectures have been exciting and interesting. The museum staff has been warm and caring. The same month I have visited the museum. It holds a vast amount of items from different time period from all over the world. The building itself is very easy to navigate and the staff is knowledgeable and friendly. I would highly recommend taking a half day excursion to the Museum. If you're not from the area, maybe come visit the museum before attending an event at the Kranert Performance Center across the street, to make your cultural experience complete.