Exhibits | Collections - EXHIBITION SCHEDULE - Peoria Riverfront Museum

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Exhibits | Collections
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Virtual Collections
Viewing Room | Virtual Tours
Exquisite Creatures
Exquisite Creatures: Patterns Alive
America 250: Celebrating America's 250th Birthday
The Promise of Liberty
Ken Burns: Guest Curator for America 250
America Forward: Jeanne Gang
Tour of The Promise of Liberty with Seth Kaller
Joyful Resistance
Athletes: A Peoria Plays America Exhibition
Deep Rivers / Long Roads | The Journey of America
A Peoria Plays America Exhibition: Fogelberg
TOYTOPIA
Louis XV Plate
Amethyst Gallery of Minerals
DURYEA: America's First Car Company
The Center for American Decoys
American Decoy | The Book
Bronzeville to Harlem | An American Story
Peoria Holocaust Memorial
Yom HaShoah | Holocaust Remembrance Day
Hallway Exhibitions
Forbes Biological Station: Celebrating 130 Years
Museum Green Tours
Donate an artifact or artwork
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Duryea Motor Trap
Sculpture Garden
Virtual Exhibitions
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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
The Amethyst Gallery of Minerals
Preston Jackson's "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story
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| Owens Gallery
The Center for American Decoys
| Oberhelman Gallery
Golden Voice Studio Wall of Albums
| Giant Screen Theater Gallery
Peoria Holocaust Memorial
| Outdoor Campus, Washington & Liberty
Richard Pryor Photographs
| Owens Gallery
Sculpture Garden
| Outdoor Campus
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
The Promise of Liberty
, Guest Curated by Ken Burns |  Open January 31, 2026 - January 3, 2027
Joyful Resistance
|  Open through January 3, 2027
Athletes: A Peoria Plays America Exhibition
| Open February 13, 2026 - April 12, 2026
Exquisite Creatures
| Open February 27, 2026 - August 9, 2026
FOGELBERG: A Peoria Plays America Exhibition
| Open April 11, 2026 - August 16, 2026
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
TOYTOPIA
| Open May 9, 2026 - September 7, 2026
We Remember: Stories from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
| Open September 5, 2026 - April 11, 2027
Transportation Revolutions: America on the Move
| Open October 3, 2026 - April 11, 2027
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Deep Rivers/Long Roads: The Journey to America
A Deeper Dive into the Permanent Collection
Solitude: The Necessity of Art
Friends of Folk: Freedom and Expression
Finding Titanic: The Secret Mission
Strangers/Kin: The Lens of Alfred Conteh
We Declare
World's Largest Dinosaurs
FOLK: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum
Glenn Ligon: I Am Somebody
Life and Legacy of Annie Malon
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BUILT: American Custom Car Culture
Faces of a Nation: The American Political Textile Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Sharks
Good Trouble Quilts
THE FIRE OF GENIUS: Presidents and Patents
HEART
INSECTS
CRITTERS: Art and Animal
Nicolas Africano: Themes and Variations
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BODY WORLDS RX
American Revolutionaries: Art & Disruption
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Archibald Motley's "Bronzeville at Night
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Design & Duplication: Treasures of the Peoria Riverfront Museum Collection
Community: African American Freedom, Perseverance & Leadership During Migration
Violins of Hope
Marks by Modern Masters: Selections from the Heintzman Collection"
Mars
Nathan Gunn: The Art of Opera
Andy Warhol: Endangered Species
Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence
Modern Masters from the Heintzman Collection
Uncovered: The Ken Burns Collection
Cinderella, Snow White & Pinocchio | Classic Disney Art from the Collection of Steve Spain
OP ART | Illusions from the Permanent Collection
MOON
American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford & Kerry James Marshall
Railroaders: Jack Delano's Homefront Photography
T. rex: The Ultimate Predator
Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked The World
Da Vinci - The Genius & Secrets of Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci to Giambattista Nolli: The Orthographic City Plan 1500 – 1750
Ken Hoffman: 50 Years in Peoria
The Sculpture of Ronald Bladen: ANGLE/EDGE/PLANE
Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild