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.
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Bethany Pemble · Married on 07/06/2019
Amazing!!!
We worked with Jennifer as our event coordinator and she was truly amazing! She was very prompt in responding to emails and always made time for me to come in and meet with her if I needed to. My husband is in the military and wasn’t home until less than a week before our wedding, so he was really trusting my judgement on the venue. Jennifer was so helpful when he came home and met with him to walk through where everything would be and how the night would go. They spent the whole week before our wedding deep cleaning the whole museum so that it was perfect for our photos and they provided some decorations for us that they had accumulated so that we wouldn’t have to spend the extra money. I will be recommending this venue to all of our friends getting married in the future!
Sent on 08/16/2019
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