Picture a Ray Bradbury experience in his hometown, Waukegan, where you can immerse yourself in the ideas from his hungry imagination.
Picture a Ray Bradbury experience where you can learn about Ray Bradbury and immerse yourself in the ideas from his hungry imagination – space exploration, Mars landings, dystopian societies, and nostalgic memories. Picture a museum with interactive exhibits that will explore Bradbury’s vast literary legacy and his important literary themes –
• Good vs evil and the nature of tolerance
• Space exploration and the boundaries of human endeavor
• Time Travel, magic and technology
• Freedom of expression
• Tolerance
• Resisting censorship
• Love of books, storytelling, and libraries
• and much, much more!
We plan to prototype our exhibits in the first floor of 13 N. Genesee Street in downtown Waukegan, Ray’s hometown and the inspiration for so much of his writing. As we grow, our goal is to expand to Ray Bradbury’s library – the historic Waukegan Carnegie Library that was the setting for Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Ray Bradbury loved that library –
“The [Waukegan Carnegie Library] building has always seemed very important to me. The library has symbolic meaning to the whole town. Waukegan pervades all of my work, and the library especially. I’m a library-educated person. I got my education in that library until I was 13.”
-- Ray Bradbury, quoted in 1992 in the Waukegan News-Sun during the campaign in the 1990s to save the Waukegan Carnegie Library from demolition
Come help us make the Ray Bradbury Museum in Waukegan a reality!
Contact us at:
[email protected]
13 N. Genesee St., Waukegan, IL
The Ray Bradbury Museum is a project of the Greater Waukegan Development Coalition, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 economic development corporation
Ray Bradbury Museum Steering Committee:
Sandra Petroshius
Irene Edgar
John Wylie
Patrick O'Keefe
Terry Fertig
The Ray Bradbury Museum is not affiliated with any past groups.
Our mission: Inspire visitors to learn about and explore the works and ideas of Ray Bradbury, and educate the public about Ray Bradbury.
