About The Illinois Distributed Museum

Welcome!

The Illinois Distributed Museum seeks to show the innovations that have occurred at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The museum highlights the work that staff, faculty and students have completed at Illinois and is meant to share these stories with the campus and community. We invite you to click and explore through the exhibits and find out the amazing ways that people have been able to change the world through collaboration, determination, and perseverance. The University of Illinois has a long standing tradition of working on interdisciplinary projects that have ultimately led to changes in understanding and interacting with our world and have helped our society. As you investigate, we hope that you are able to find these themes and many more!

The Illinois Distributed Museum is unique as it is designed so campus is the museum building and this website is the tour guide and the exhibit interpretation labels. Each exhibit has at least one location that you can visit and a list of other locations (titled Locations to Visit). You can also take tours of different themes and subjects in the tour section. The Illinois Distributed Museum can be used without visiting the locations, if you wish to explore these innovations away from campus.  There are also resource sections and sources sections within the exhibits that will lead you to more information about that topic. You can click on the map or an exhibit to begin or you can click the tours tab and take one of our tours!