**This tour is SOLD OUT**Founded in 1887,
The Newberry houses a collection of 1.6 million books, 600,000 maps, and 5 million manuscript pages and is a portal to more than six centuries of human history, from the Middle Ages to the present. Core collections include American History and Culture; American Indian and Indigenous Studies; Chicago and the Midwest; Genealogy and Local History; History of the Book; Modern Manuscripts and Archives; Maps, Travel, and Exploration; Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies; Performing Arts; Postcards; and Religion (source material and printed editions from Western Europe and the Americas, spanning the late Middle Ages through the early twentieth century).
Maximum Participants: 12 limit
Fee: $10
Accessibility: walking, standing
Location: 60 West Walton Street
Transportation: 20 minutes via Red Line CTA train or 25 minutes walking
Meet the tour wrangler in the Hyatt Regency lobby at 1:20 pm to travel together.