Joliet Historical Society Museum

The Joliet Area Historical Museum offers visitors a glimpse as the area's past comes alive through an interactive journey through time.

Experience how people lived, worked, and built the foundation for today's thriving community. Walk through a life-size replica depicting the building of the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal. Stroll past store fronts on a turn-of-the-century street. Take a virtual ride on a replica trolley. Look into the faces of the servicemen and -women who courageously defended our country. Along the way, meet life-size models, interact with touch-screen visuals, view award-winning audio-visuals and learn how the past shaped the world you now enjoy. Live the myth of Route 66, The Mother Road-visit the drive-in Route 66 movie, sit in a replica Corvette and pretend to order food from a carhop.