Spurlock Museum
Spurlock Museum is a museum in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 222 m. Blue Mound stands 228 m to the west-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Lincoln on Lincoln, a artwork 0.1 miles away. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum, better known as the Spurlock Museum, is an ethnographic museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Spurlock Museum's permanent collection includes portions of collections from other museums and units on the Urbana-Champaign campus such as cultural artifacts from the Museum of Natural History and Department of Anthropology as well as historic clothing from the Bevier Collection of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The museum also holds objects donated by other institutions and private individuals. With approximately 51,000 objects in its artifact collection, the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collects, preserves, documents, exhibits, and studies objects of cultural heritage. The museum's main galleries, highlighting the ancient Mediterranean, modern Africa, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, East Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, celebrate the diversity of cultures through time and across the globe.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2002-09-26.
Wikidata Q7581580, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Fee
- No
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lincoln on Lincoln: 0.1 mi
- Dance on Illinois: 0.2 mi
- Molecular Biology Art of Science: 0.2 mi
- The Landing: 0.2 mi
- Structural Mechanics: 0.2 mi
- Hallene Gateway Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Main Quad: 0.3 mi
- Anniversary Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Illini Grove: 0.4 mi
- Alma Mater Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Wesley Wildflower Corner: 0.2 mi
- Red Oak Rain Garden: 0.3 mi
- Peace Garden: 0.4 mi
- Megan's Garden: 0.6 mi
- Beckman Garden: 0.7 mi
- Hallene Gateway: 0.1 mi
- Morton Weir Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Eternal Flame: 0.4 mi
- Class of 1900 Memorial Bench: 0.4 mi
- Senior Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Busey Woods: 1.5 mi
- Brownfield Woods: 3.9 mi
- Barnhart Prairie Restoration: 4.1 mi
- Trelease Prairie: 4.4 mi
- Trelease Woods: 4.6 mi
- Carl R. Woese Museum: 0.3 mi
- The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music: 0.6 mi
- Krannert Art Museum: 0.7 mi
- Anita Purves Nature Center: 1.5 mi
- Museum of the Grand Prairie: 11.4 mi
- American Football House: 0.3 mi
- Experimental Round Barns: 1.0 mi
- Music Barn: 23.2 mi
- Demonstration Prairie: 23.4 mi
- Blue Mound: 7.6 mi
- Blue Mound: 13.7 mi
- The Oasis: 3.3 mi
- Kumler: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Spurlock Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | WSW 247° | 228 m | 13.7 mi |
| Blue Mound | NE 49° | 214 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:45 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:48 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 30 | 41 | 52 | 63 | 72 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Champaign 3S, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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