The Richard H. Driehaus Museum

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum immerses visitors in the culturally and historically significant setting of one of the grandest residential buildings of 19th Century Chicago, the Samuel M. Nickerson House. A celebration of superlative design and craftsmanship, the Driehaus Museum offers visitors the opportunity to experience how the prevailing design philosophies of the period were interpreted by artists, architects and designers at the waning of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th Century.