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Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County

1899 West Winchester Rd, Libertyville, IL 60084

The Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County (formerly the Lake County Discovery Museum) is an interactive museum of history, art, and popular culture in Wauconda, Illinois. The museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and presenting the history and culture of Lake County, Illinois. Its collections include the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, the largest public collection of postcards in the United States.

The museum closed in 2016 and was scheduled to re-open in its new location on Winchester Road in March 2018.

This description includes material adapted from the Wikipedia article "Lake County Discovery Museum", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. It has been edited for brevity and to conform with the style of this website. The edited description is distributed under the terms of the same Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 license.

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