For Ginny Nelson, it started with an iris bud. “That’s my earliest memory,” she says, recalling her childhood fascination as she watched the deep purple flower bloom in a tabletop vase. Now retired ...

In the early 1900’s, the peninsula of land that the Museum occupies was engineered by landfilling what was once a part of Lake Michigan with coal ash, clay, dirt and household waste. In 1998, when ...