Visitors to the nation’s cap­i­tal who stay at the Loews Madison Hotel, the offi­cial hotel part­ner for the National Geographic Museum, will be only two blocks from com­ing face-to-face with 15 terra cotta war­riors as well as other trea­sures from the tomb of China’s first emperor includ­ing 100 sets of objects, stone armor, weapons, coins, bronze ves­sels, and more.

Everyone knows that Chicago has an abun­dance of great muse­ums. What many peo­ple don’t know is that many of them offer free or dis­counted admis­sion dur­ing cer­tain days of the week and/or cer­tain times of the year. With the ris­ing cost of park­ing, food, gas and prac­ti­cally every­thing else asso­ci­ated with trav­el­ing, we could all use a break on the admis­sion fees!