Joliet Area Historical Museum is a wedding and events venue located in Joliet, Illinois. This museum venue offers a special setting and a range of spaces for your wedding day.
Facilities and Capacity
Joliet Area Historical Museum offers four distinct spaces to host your special day. The Route 66 visitors center’s terrazzo floor and glass-enclosed space can host up to 60 guests seated or 125 standing. Weather permitting, this opens to the outside fountain garden. The rooftop terrace overlooks historic downtown Joliet. The tiled terrace is partially-roofed so that your guests have shelter from inclement weather and can host up to 200 seated guests, or 250 standing. The rooftop terrace is available from May 1 through October 15. The auditorium in the lower level of the museum accommodates 200 seated guests, or 225 standing. You and your guests can enjoy the limestone feature wall highlighting the 320-square-foot stage and pantry area, with upcycled barn wood fixtures. The resource and discovery room on the second floor of the museum galleries can host up to 25 seated, or 40 standing, lending an intimate feel to your day.
Services Offered
Joliet Area Historical Museum is available to host your engagement party, bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. Wedding services here begin with setup, event planning, chairs, tables, get-ready room, lighting/sound, parking, and cleanup. Bar services, event rentals, outside vendors, and WiFi are also available. Bar service starts with bartenders, house beer, house wine, and open bar, while event rentals include altar/arch, audio equipment, barware, microphones, slide screen, projector, and easels.
Other Facilities
You and your guests can enjoy the amenities of Joliet Area Historical Museum during your stay. These include museum exhibits, tours of the Old Joliet Prison, and concerts. Since its opening in 2002, the museum has kept to its mission of promoting and preserving the diverse history and culture of the Joliet area.
Location
Joliet Area Historical Museum is located just south of the Louis Joliet Renaissance Center, and is in easy driving distance of several restaurants and hotels. Joliet being a major transportation hub as the junction of interstate highways I-80 and I-55, and the junction of two National Scenic Byways: Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway.
I don’t know where to begin. Jen with the Joliet Area Historical Museum is absolutely INCREDIBLE. I cannot emphasize enough how amazing and helpful she is. She will be there for you from the day you start with them all the way until your wedding, and she is willing to help with anything and everything. My wedding was 10/16/20, my DJ didn’t show up. Jen seriously dove head first Into resolving that issue ASAP. I know I’m missing a lot of things she did in this review, but out of all the vendors & people on my team that I had to work with, she was the only one that genuinely gave me a sigh of relief instead of extra stress & confusion.
If you want the absolute best wedding, at a BEAUTIFUL venue that won’t break your pockets for your first few years of marriage, THIS is the place to go. I’m actually kind of sad the wedding is over and don’t need to go there as frequently now.
I wouldn’t have changed a thing about my wedding at this place. ❤️❤️❤️
Sent on 11/01/2020
Jill
· Married on 11/07/2020
5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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Wedding Ceremony
We planned to have our wedding ceremony and reception at the Museum but due to the pandemic we ended up just having our ceremony, a small cake cutting, and first dance. It definitely wasn't what we planned but everything came our great. Jennifer helped us so much through out everything; all the questions, concerns, changed, just everything we needed. She was amazing. I will definitely be using the museum for any future special events.
Sent on 11/13/2020
Dawn M.
· Married on 09/20/2020
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
Superior! Absolutely wonderful. Top notch helpful!
The answer was never “no” or “I don’t know.” It was “yes”, “I’ll make that happen” and “no problem!” Then they took matters into their hands and bent over backwards to help us when our DJ didn’t show. Wedding Coordinator Jen, she gets 10 stars out of 10. Not a nit to pick!
Sent on 10/23/2020
Joliet Area Historical Museum's reply:
Thank you so much! It was such a pleasure to work with all of you and the day turned out beautiful.
