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The previous price was CA $15 and current price is CA $13 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Overview

  • You just stole Edward Hopper's Nighthawks from the Art Institute of Chicago. Now you need to disappear into the city before anyone notices. This self-guided escape game turns Millennium Park into a thrilling art heist where every landmark hides your next move.

    Solve 14 puzzles at Chicago's most iconic public art. Decode clues at Cloud Gate, crack a cipher at Crown Fountain, lose your tail on the BP Bridge, and face a moral reckoning at Buckingham Fountain.

    Download the Questo app, activate with your booking code, and start at the Art Institute on Michigan Ave. No guide needed, just your phone, clues and a map in the app.

    Discover why Calder's Flying Dragon was his final sculpture, how Frank Gehry convinced the mayor with squiggles on paper, and the storey of a boy sculptor pulled from an Illinois coal mine.

    About 95 minutes, 14 stops, 3.4 km through Millennium Park and Grant Park. Available all day. Perfect for art lovers, couples, and first-time visitors to Chicago.

Activity location

  • The Art Institute of Chicago
    • 111 S Michigan Ave
    • 60603-6110, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 111 S Michigan Ave
    • 111 South Michigan Avenue
    • 60603, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Chicago Art Heist: Millennium Park Puzzle Adventure in English

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 35 minutes1h 35m
    1h 35m
  • Opening hours: Mon 12:00am-11:59pm
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
CA $10.96
CA $9.86 x 2 AdultsCA $19.72
Total
The previous price was CA $21.92 and current price is CA $19.72
10% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Real history at every stop, from Calder and Gehry to Louis Sullivan and Lorado Taft
  • Inclusions
    Flexible scheduling, start anytime, play at your own pace
  • Inclusions
    Self-guided art heist adventure through Millennium Park and Grant Park
  • Inclusions
    Interactive puzzles at Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Buckingham Fountain, Pritzker Pavilion, and more
  • Exclusions
    Live tour guide (self-guided via the app)

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago was founded as both a museum and school for the fine arts in 1879, a critical era in the history of Chicago as civic energies were devoted to rebuilding the metropolis that had been destroyed by the Great Fire of 1871. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Flying Dragon Stabile by Alexander Calder

It is the work of celebrated American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976). ... The artist coated the stainless steel Flying Dragon in his signature red-orange colour, which he also used for his giant Flamingo in Chicago's Federal Court Plaza. Calder's work spanned about fifty years. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Crown Fountain

Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area. Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and executed by Krueck and Sexton Architects, it opened in July 2004. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Cloud Gate

Image result for Cloud Gate Chicago history Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago's famous skyline and the clouds above. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Millennium Monument

The Wrigley Square contains the Millennium Monument, a nearly full-sized replica of the semicircle of paired Roman Doric-style columns (called a peristyle) that originally sat in this area of Grant Park, near Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, between 1917 and 1953. The square also contains a large lawn and a public fountain. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Lurie Garden

The watery Lurie Garden site was accordingly filled (mostly with the rubble of the old city burned in the Great Fire), framed, and decked to its current elevation on the rooftop of a car park – awaiting the Garden that would tell the layered storey buried beneath it. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Chicago Stock Exchange Arch

The Chicago Stock Exchange Arch is one of the few surviving fragments from the Chicago Stock Exchange building designed in 1893, installed outside the Art Institute of Chicago, in the US state of Illinois. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Buckingham Fountain

Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the centre of Grant Park, and between Queen's Landing and Congress Parkway. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Seated Lincoln

The sculpture depicts a contemplative Lincoln seated in a chair, and gazing down into the distance. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Sir Georg Solti Garden

The sculpture was moved to Grant Park and rededicated in October 2006 in the Sir Georg Solti Garden, near Symphony Centre, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Fountain of the Great Lakes

Completed in 1913, Taft's Fountain of the Great Lakes was the first commission of Benjamin F. Ferguson Fund, which had been established several years earlier to foster the placement of statuary and monuments along the boulevards and in other public places in Chicago. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) was founded in 1866 by a group of 35 artists. Then called the Chicago Academy of Design, its early success resulted in construction of a building to house the school, which opened its doors on November 22, 1870.

Location

Activity location

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    The Art Institute of Chicago
    • 111 S Michigan Ave
    • 60603-6110, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    111 S Michigan Ave
    • 111 South Michigan Avenue
    • 60603, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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