The Nichols Bridgeway

The walkway that bridges a street and attaches the Art Institute's Modern Wing is a work of art itself, interesting to look at and fun to walk over. Park visitors can climb to a roof garden above the museum, can eat at the restaurant up on the roof, and can enter the museum to see the many works of art.

Interestingly, though, the climb to the roof only allows entrance to the museum by taking an escalator back down to the ground floor. It would have been easier to walk across the street and enter the building. Easier, but nowhere near as pretty!